[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

Re: [HACKERS] binary compat

2009-09-01 Thread Marko Kreen
On 9/1/09, Dimitri Fontaine dfonta...@hi-media.com 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)...

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 back

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