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.
Regards,Jeff Davis
