From: Warren Young
Date: March 21 2007 4:19am
Subject: Re: dumping large binary file in database
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Ian Miller wrote:
> 
> Am I missing something?

Yes: he said it's too slow the way it works now.  He's got a translation 
from binary -- the current source of the data, apparently -- to text 
inside the client-side program and back to binary in the database 
server.  He wants that import process to go faster, so he's trying to 
get rid of that extra translation.