On Tuesday 29 September 2009, Sam Mason <sam(at)samason(dot)me(dot)uk> wrote:
> > I think a big reason is also that the client can stream the data
> > without waiting for a network round trip ack on every statement.
>
> I don't think so. I'm pretty sure you can send multiple statements in a
> single round trip. libpq is defined to work in such cases anyway:
>
> http://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/static/libpq-exec.html
>
I'm sure you probably _can_, but how many programming loops do so?
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