Samantha Atkins <sjatkins@xxxxxxx> writes: > 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. I think you are drastically overestimating the overhead of a prepared query, and drastically underestimating the work involved in implementing or maintaining a "bypass" solution. This really isn't going to be worth your time. If you think you don't need SQL at all anywhere, then go with something like BDB. regards, tom lane -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general