Re: send()/receive() and on-disk storage - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Markus Schaber
Subject Re: send()/receive() and on-disk storage
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Msg-id 451D27C6.40904@logix-tt.com
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In response to Re: send()/receive() and on-disk storage  (Martijn van Oosterhout <kleptog@svana.org>)
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Hi, Martijn,

Martijn van Oosterhout wrote:

> It would be terribly inefficient to call those functions for each
> read/write. The disk has the internal format, send/receive deal with a
> portable not-host-dependant representation of the data.

Thanks.

Markus

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