On Tue, Nov 24, 2009 at 9:13 PM, Jeff Davis <pgsql@j-davis.com> wrote:
>
> I still don't see any reason to force it to be record by record though.
> If the point is to push data from a table into a remote table, why
> should the copied data be translated out of binary format into a record,
> and then back into binary form to send to the remote system?
>
> Currently, the second argument to copy is a source or destination of
> bytes, not records. So forcing it to deal with records is inconsistent.
You are correct. It so happens as an artifact of how COPY is written
that things are delivered row-by-row, but at some fundamental level it
does not matter were that not the case...
fdr