Re: COPY speedup

Merlin Moncure escribió:
> 2009/8/12 Pierre Frédéric Caillaud <lists@peufeu.com>:
> >
> >
> >> If you do as much damage to the I/O function API as the other patch
> >> did, it will probably be rejected.
> >
> >        You mean, as the COPY patch in my previous message, or as another
> > patch ?
> >        (I just search the archives and found one about CopyReadLine, but
> > that's probably not what you are talking about)
> >
> >> We don't touch datatype APIs
> >> lightly, because it affects too much code.
> >>
> >>                        regards, tom lane
> >
> >        I definitely agree with that.
> 
> Is there any way to do this that is not as invasive?

Maybe add new methods, fastrecv/fastsend etc.  Types that don't
implement them would simply use the slow methods, maintaining
backwards compatibility.

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