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libpq: PQgetCopyData() and allocation overhead

Jeroen Vermeulen <jtvjtv@gmail.com> — 2023-02-09T23:25:45Z

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