Okay, thats seems like a lot!! What are the priorities about getting
this modification into the driver? I have seen some other posts
regarding this binaryStream / memory problem, so it seems that i'm not
the only one :-)

Oliver Jowett wrote:

>Jesper Thorhauge wrote:
>
>
>>Okay, thanks alot for the quick answer! I was wondering, do you know how
>>much more efficient it could be done using the binary format you are
>>mentioning? I'm especially interested in decreasing the amount of memory
>>used to get large bytea values...
>>
>>
>
>Um, rough estimate would be about a factor of 5 (assume text
>representation of bytea averages about ~2.5 characters per raw byte, and
>characters are 16 bits on the Java side)
>
>-O
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