> Magnus Hagander <mha@sollentuna.net> writes:
> > I don't know, maybe recv() is more expensive than fgetc()?
> 
> Vastly.
Ok. That pretty much says it all :-)
<snip>

> What we need to do here is to re-introduce the buffering ability of
> stdio into backend libpq.  If you compare the current frontend libpq,
> you'll notice that it reads or writes the socket a bufferload 
> at a time,
> not a character at a time.

Ok. I'll take a look at that as soon as I get the time (shouldn't be long).

//Magnus

Mon, 18 Jan 1999 19:33:05 +0100
Magnus Hagander <mha@sollentuna.net>
RE: [HACKERS] Postgres Speed or lack thereof 