Re: FW: PreparedStatement#setString on non-string parameters

Silvio Bierman wrote:

> I can not say anything about performance in comparison to the 8.0 driver
> yet. Oliver mentioned poor blob-performance in the pre-8 protocol. I am not
> very happy with that since we use blobs quite frequently, be it that they
> are are never very large.

The protocol actually changed in 7.4, but the JDBC driver was not
updated to use all the features of the new protocol until the 8.0
release cycle.

-O