you can find the following patch at: darcs pull http://common-lisp.net/project/cl-wdim/darcs/postmodern
Tue Aug 21 15:34:46 CEST 2007 attila.lendvai@gmail.com * Use ironclad for md5 hashing (much better optimized)
we were profiling our code and saw that postgres connecting was among the consumers. the main bottleneck was the md5 hashing/printing, so tried with ironclad and it was a lot faster.
you may consider moving to ironclad and then pulling the patch. i hope you'll like it.
at your service,