Re: pgsql: Binary data support improvement
| From: | Matteo Beccati | Date: | Tue, 02 Jul 2013 10:33:28 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: pgsql: Binary data support improvement | ||
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On 02/07/2013 12:21, Yasuo Ohgaki wrote:
> 2013/7/2 Matteo Beccati <php@beccati.com
> <mailto:php@beccati.com>>
> We could easily (and transparently) use binary for the parameters
> explicitly bound as LOB, but I see no way we can use binary for results
> -- which usually is the most common operation. Maybe it's better than
> nothing though?
>
> The API is not for ease of use, but for better performance as it eliminate
> needless hex conversions on both server and client side.
What I meant is that we might have that speed improvements for free in
PDO when bytea is used as a parameter (i.e. most likely insert/updates).
With no visible change for the user and full backwards compatibility.
Cheers
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Matteo Beccati
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