Tomasz Ostrowski <tometzky@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > Now for inserting data to a bytea we need 5*data_size in a buffer for > escaped data representation. 6*data_size if we do PQescapeByteaConn > in one chunk. If you send the value as an out-of-line binary parameter then you don't need any of that. See PQexecParams. regards, tom lane