Libpq vs Libpqxx

After using Libpqxx for the past 5 years on a PostgreSQL 7.4 database, I migrated the PostgreSQL 7.4 database to 8.3 and Libpqxx to the current stable version - 2.6.9.
We are running dual quad core xeon's on a 64 bit Red Hat Entrprise 5 Server with GCC 4.1.x.  Libpqxx is just a wrapper library around Libpqx so there are performance issues because you can just call into libpq directly without incurring object / template overhead in  your code.  There are io errors in the libpqxx classes for insertion statements - i.e. improper object destruction and improper transaction destruction - thereby causing memory leaks. I turned on DEBUG5 in the postgreSQL 8.3 database and closely monitored the log files.  After deciding to migrate the code to use libq, I was very pleased with the results. Error checking is simple, code execution is faster, and library / executable sizes were reduced.  If you are not married to C++ objects, then I highly recommend replacing libpqxx with libpq in your C++ code. The conversion is simple. Please e-mail me for examples if you are interested.