Tom Lane wrote:
> Andreas Pflug <pgadmin@pse-consulting.de> writes:
>
>>Examining why psql won't do sensible stuff with COPY BINARY, I realized
>>that psql still uses PQgetline, which is marked obsolete since 7.4.
>>Is this intentional or just a "never reviewed because it works"?
>
>
> There wasn't any obvious bang for the buck in rewriting it.

Well a non-binary copy could take as much as 5 times as much as a binary
copy. I hit this when COPYing 1.5GB of data, getting a 6.6GB file. This
made the 100MBit LAN connection a bottleneck.

I might post a patch to support BINARY in psql some day.

Regards,
Andreas

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