>> I did not find a solution so far; and for bulk data transfers I now
>> >programmed a workaround.
>>
>> But that is surely based on some component installed on the server,
>> isn't
>> it?
>>
>
> Correct. I use a pyro-remote server. On request this remote server copies
> the relevant rows into a temporary table, uses a copy_to Call to push
> them
> into a StringIO-Objekt (that's Pythons version of "In Memory File"),
> serializes that StringIO-Objekt, does a bz2-compression and transfers the
> whole block via VPN.
>
> I read on in this thread, and I scheduled to check on psycopg2 and what
> it is doing with cursors.
What about a SSH tunnel using data compression ?
If you fetch all rows from a query in one go, would it be fast ?
Also, PG can now COPY from a query, so you don't really need the temp
table...
