On Fri, Oct 4, 2013 at 11:28 AM, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
> David Rowley <dgrowleyml@gmail.com> writes:
>> Here's a small patch which greatly increases the speed of
>> pg_dump --column-inserts.
>
> The reason why no one's paid any attention to the speed of that code path
> is that if you care about dump/restore speed, you should be using the COPY
> code paths instead. Is it really worth adding code and complexity to
> pg_dump for this?
One possible reason to care about this is if you're trying to move
data to another database. The INSERT format is more portable.
Also, this isn't really adding any net code or complexity AFAICS.
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