On 10/18/06, Martijn van Oosterhout <kleptog@svana.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.
merlin
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