Simple DB Access

[Christian S]

On 8/5/06, Serge Aleynikov <serge@REDACTED> wrote:
> One comment about a nice feature to have in edbc that I believe is
> specific to OCI - array DML inserts, where bind variables can contain an
> array of values.  This saves quite a bit on network round trips when
> inserting hundreds / thousands of records

Just checking but: Is it truly the network roundtrip that take time? I
learned that for postgres it will save time to wrap such imports with
a transaction so one doesnt need to lock for every insert. I mean, it
is always nice to keep apis clean.