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
>
>

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