libpq: PQgetCopyData() and allocation overhead
Jeroen Vermeulen <jtvjtv@gmail.com>
From: Jeroen Vermeulen <jtvjtv@gmail.com>
To: pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org
Date: 2023-02-09T23:25:45Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
Would there be interest in a variant of PQgetCopyData() that re-uses the same buffer for a new row, rather than allocating a new buffer on each iteration? I tried it on a toy benchmark, and it reduced client-side CPU time by about 12%. (Less of a difference in wall-clock time of course; the client was only using the CPU for a bit over half the time.) Jeroen