Stephen, On 12/2/05 1:19 PM, "Stephen Frost" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I've used the binary mode stuff before, sure, Postgres may have to > convert some things but I have a hard time believing it'd be more > expensive to do a network_encoding -> host_encoding (or toasting, or > whatever) than to do the ascii -> binary change. >From a performance standpoint no argument, although you're betting that you can do parsing / conversion faster than the COPY core in the backend can (I know *we* can :-). It's a matter of safety and generality - in general you can't be sure that client machines / OS'es will render the same conversions that the backend does in all cases IMO. - Luke ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 2: Don't 'kill -9' the postmaster
