froggle2003@yahoo.com (Alex Martinoff) writes:
> ... Using a TCP socket
> instead of a unix socket seems to slow down requests that return large
> result sets by a factor of 3 on the same machine.
Seems like a kernel bug to me. All modern TCP stacks have shortcuts for
local connections. What platform are you on exactly?
(BTW, this is not an argument against having JDBC support unix-socket
connections; I can see security reasons for that. But there should not
be performance reasons for it.)
regards, tom lane
