Bernd Helmle <maili...@oopsware.de> writes:
> From time to time we had complains about slow dump of large tables with 
> bytea columns, people often complaining about a) size and b) duration of 
> the dump.

> That latter occurred recently to me, a customer would like to dump large 
> tables (approx. 12G in size) with pg_dump, but he was annoyed about the 
> performance. Using COPY BINARY reduced the time (unsurprisingly) to a 
> fraction (from 12 minutes to 3 minutes).

Seems like the right response might be some micro-optimization effort on
byteaout.

                        regards, tom lane

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