Re: [HACKERS] binary compat

2009-09-01 Thread Pierre Frédéric Caillau d
I've been idly thinking about binary COPY and recent performance efforts spent on it. The main problem I have with binary output is that I never know when it'll be any useful (except very same hardware and PostgreSQL setup)... useful meaning I get to read it back into some database. I posted a

Re: [HACKERS] binary compat

2009-09-01 Thread Paul Matthews
Dimitri Fontaine wrote: > Hi, > > I've been idly thinking about binary COPY and recent performance efforts > spent on it. The main problem I have with binary output is that I never > know when it'll be any useful (except very same hardware and PostgreSQL > setup)... useful meaning I get to read it

Re: [HACKERS] binary compat

2009-09-01 Thread Marko Kreen
On 9/1/09, Dimitri Fontaine wrote: > I've been idly thinking about binary COPY and recent performance efforts > spent on it. The main problem I have with binary output is that I never > know when it'll be any useful (except very same hardware and PostgreSQL > setup)... useful meaning I get to

[HACKERS] binary compat

2009-09-01 Thread Dimitri Fontaine
Hi, I've been idly thinking about binary COPY and recent performance efforts spent on it. The main problem I have with binary output is that I never know when it'll be any useful (except very same hardware and PostgreSQL setup)... useful meaning I get to read it back into some database. Would pro