Re: Varlena and binary

=?utf-8?q?Rados=C5=82aw_Smogura?= <mail@smogura.eu> writes:
> I'm sending small patch for textsend. It reduces unnecessary copies, and 
> memory usage for duplication of varlena data. May you look?

This code will break the day that text and bytea don't have the same
internal representation, which seems likely to be soon.  Barring some
compelling evidence of a major performance improvement obtainable this
way, I don't think we want this patch.

			regards, tom lane