On Sun, Nov 29, 2009 at 6:35 PM, Jeff Davis <pg...@j-davis.com> wrote: > What if the network buffer is flushed in the middle of a line? Is that > possible, or is there a guard against that somewhere?
What do you mean? They both catenate onto one stream of bytes, it shouldn't matter where the flush boundaries are... It so happens as a convenient property of the textual modes is that adding more payload is purely concatenative (not true for binary, where there's a header that would cause confusion to the receiving side) fdr -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers