2009/11/25 Jeff Davis <pg...@j-davis.com>: > On Tue, 2009-11-24 at 21:42 -0800, Daniel Farina wrote: >> You are probably right. We could try coercing to bytea and back out >> to bytes, although it seems like a superfluous cost to force >> *everyone* to pay just to get the same bytes to a network buffer. > > Well, I suppose only performance will tell. Copying a buffer is sure to > be faster than invoking all of the type input/output functions, or even > send/recv, so perhaps it's not a huge penalty. > > My disagreement with the row-by-row approach is more semantics than > performance. COPY translates records to bytes and vice-versa, and your > original patch maintains those semantics.
uff, really COPY CSV ? Pavel > > Regards, > Jeff Davis > > -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers