Re: pg_dump insert with column names speedup

* Robert Haas (robertmhaas@gmail.com) wrote:
> 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.

Agreed- this looks more like a "gee, that makes a lot of sense" than a
"wow, that's way more complicated".  Not a whole lot of point in
building up a known-to-be-constant string on every iteration of the
loop.
Thanks,
    Stephen