Re: Allow logical replication to copy tables in binary format

Hi,

On 2022-08-10 18:03:56 +0300, Melih Mutlu wrote:
> To copy tables, COPY command is used and that command supports copying in
> binary. So it seemed to me possible to copy in binary for tablesync too.
> I'm not sure if there is a reason to always copy tables in text format.

It'd be good to collect some performance numbers justifying this. I'd expect
decent gains if there's e.g. a bytea or timestamptz column involved.

Greetings,

Andres Freund