Re: Questions on printtup() - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Tom Lane
Subject Re: Questions on printtup()
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Msg-id 7968.1136508161@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to Questions on printtup()  (Qingqing Zhou <zhouqq@cs.toronto.edu>)
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Qingqing Zhou <zhouqq@cs.toronto.edu> writes:
> So we spend a portion of time at preparing tuples in printtup() by
> converting the tuple format to a network format. I am not quite familiar
> with that part, so I wonder is it possible to try to send with original
> tuple format with minimal preparing job (say handling toast) -- which
> might increase the amount of data of network communication, but may reduce
> the CPU on server side?

It's called retrieving in binary format ...
        regards, tom lane


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