On Wed, 20 Sep 2006, Tom Lane wrote:
> Tomasz Ostrowski <tometzky@batory.org.pl> writes:
> > Now for inserting data to a bytea we need 5*data_size in a buffer for
> > escaped data representation. 6*data_size if we do PQescapeByteaConn
> > in one chunk.
>
> If you send the value as an out-of-line binary parameter then you don't
> need any of that. See PQexecParams.
Nice. I've overlooked this.
This still needs 1*data_size for a buffer though. Much better but
sometimes not enough.
Regards
Tometzky
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