Re: psql and COPY BINARY

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