On Tue, Nov 24, 2009 at 9:13 PM, Jeff Davis <pg...@j-davis.com> wrote:
> > I still don't see any reason to force it to be record by record though. > If the point is to push data from a table into a remote table, why > should the copied data be translated out of binary format into a record, > and then back into binary form to send to the remote system? > > Currently, the second argument to copy is a source or destination of > bytes, not records. So forcing it to deal with records is inconsistent. You are correct. It so happens as an artifact of how COPY is written that things are delivered row-by-row, but at some fundamental level it does not matter were that not the case... fdr -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
