On 7/25/22 10:07, Jack Christensen wrote:
> The advantage is to be able to use the binary format with only a single
> network round trip in cases where prepared statements are not possible.
> e.g. when using PgBouncer. Using the simple protocol with this patch
> lets users of pgx (the Go driver mentioned above) and PgBouncer use the
> binary format. The performance gains can be significant especially with
> types such as timestamptz that are very slow to parse.
>
> As far as only sending binary types that the client can understand, the
> client driver would call `set format_binary` at the beginning of the
> session.
+1 makes a lot of sense to me.
Dave please add this to the open commitfest (202209)
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Joe Conway
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