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Re: [PATCH 4/4] Add tests to dblink covering use of COPY TO FUNCTION - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Simon Riggs
Subject Re: [PATCH 4/4] Add tests to dblink covering use of COPY TO FUNCTION
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In response to Re: [PATCH 4/4] Add tests to dblink covering use of COPY TO FUNCTION  (Jeff Davis <pgsql@j-davis.com>)
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On Tue, 2009-11-24 at 22:13 -0800, Jeff Davis wrote:

> 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.

The bytes <-> records conversion is a costly one. Anything we can do to
avoid that in either direction will be worth it. I would regard
performance as being part/most of the reason to support this.

-- Simon Riggs           www.2ndQuadrant.com

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