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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