2008/10/2 Knight, Doug <dknight at wsi.com>:
> Thanks! Would I need it on both the "copy to stdout" and "copy from stdin"?

I think all information is in the source and the docs :)
http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.3/static/sql-copy.html
http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.3/static/libpq-copy.html

It's possible to write a patch, but please can you tell me what
performance gain you expect?

You wrote "We have some very large binary tables that might benefit
from the performance of the binary COPY."

did you try to measure the possible speedup? can you share your results?


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Filip Rembiałkowski