Re: Is there a way to bypass sql?

John R Pierce <pierce@hogranch.com>

From: John R Pierce <pierce@hogranch.com>
To: pgsql-general@postgresql.org
Date: 2010-08-11T05:44:04Z
Lists: pgsql-general
  On 08/10/10 10:31 PM, Samantha Atkins wrote:
> In many OO projects the majority of the work on persistent objects is 
> navigational and inserts with relatively few updates. Queries are 
> usually mainly for initial working set in many such systems and little 
> else. When retrieving an object given a persistent oid it would be 
> better if I didn't need to go through even a prepared statement and 
> especially it would be better if I did not need to translate column 
> values or do subqueries to either construct my OO language object or 
> construct my OO cache entry. One thought is that I could in many cases 
> store the cache entry format directly in a KV store and save a bit.

or just dump your data in a flatfile, in ASN.1 or XML or something.   
sheesh.