From: | Ron Johnson <ron(dot)l(dot)johnson(at)cox(dot)net> |
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To: | pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org |
Subject: | Re: COPY FROM STDIN instead of INSERT |
Date: | 2006-10-18 14:08:28 |
Message-ID: | 4536355C.6050204@cox.net |
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On 10/18/06 08:03, Merlin Moncure wrote:
> On 10/18/06, Martijn van Oosterhout <kleptog(at)svana(dot)org> wrote:
>> Binary may be slightly faster because the datum parsing can be
>> partially skipped, but that's hardly much benefit over a text copy.
>
> I tested binary quite a bit and only found it to be a win if moving
> blobs in and out of the database. On 'normal' tables of mixed fields
> types of small size, it can actually be slower. Binary is a bit
> faster for native types and bytea, and slower for character types.
"native types"?
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Ron Johnson, Jr.
Jefferson LA USA
Is "common sense" really valid?
For example, it is "common sense" to white-power racists that
whites are superior to blacks, and that those with brown skins
are mud people.
However, that "common sense" is obviously wrong.
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