Folks,
Please find attached a couple of patches intended to $subject.
This patch set cut the time to copy ten million rows of randomly sized
int8s (10 of them) by about a third, so at least for that case, it's
pretty decent.
Thanks to Andrew Gierth for lots of patient help.
Best,
David.
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