Andrew Gierth <and...@tao11.riddles.org.uk> writes:
> So here's a thing: I finally got to doing my performance tests for using
> the Ryu float output code in float[48]out.
> Ryu is so blazing fast that with it, COPY of a table with 2million rows
> of 12 random float8 columns (plus id) becomes FASTER in text mode than
> in binary mode (rather than ~5x slower):
Oh yeah? Where's the code for this?
> (And yes, I've double-checked the results and they look correct, other
> than the formatting differences. COPY BINARY seems to have a bit more
> overhead than text mode, even for just doing integers, I don't know
> why.)
The per-column overhead is more (length word vs delimiter) and I think
the APIs for send/recv functions are potentially a bit less efficient
too.
regards, tom lane
