Qingqing Zhou <zhouqq(at)cs(dot)toronto(dot)edu> writes:
> So we spend a portion of time at preparing tuples in printtup() by
> converting the tuple format to a network format. I am not quite familiar
> with that part, so I wonder is it possible to try to send with original
> tuple format with minimal preparing job (say handling toast) -- which
> might increase the amount of data of network communication, but may reduce
> the CPU on server side?
It's called retrieving in binary format ...
regards, tom lane