Re: COPY command & binary format - Mailing list pgsql-general

Hello,

What is the way to build a binary format (instead of a csv) ? Is there specification for this file ?
http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.5/static/sql-copy.html

Could I create such format from java ?

I guess this would be far faster, and maybe safer than CSVs

Thanks by advance,

Hi
Making a driver that do what you want is not difficult. You will achieve better performances than than loading data from CSV, and you also will have better precision for floating values (there is no text conversion).
In the link you provide there is a description of the file format in section Binary Format.
Mathieu Pujol