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    Marginal hacking to improve the speed of COPY OUT. I had found in a bit of · 011b51cb
    Tom Lane authored
    profiling that CopyAttributeOutText was taking an unreasonable fraction of
    the backend run time (like 66%!) on the following trivial test case:
    
    $ time psql -c "copy (select repeat('xyzzy',50) from generate_series(1,10000000)) to stdout" regression >/dev/null
    
    The time is all being spent on scanning the string for characters to be
    escaped, which most of the time there aren't any of.  Some tweaking to take
    as many tests as possible out of the inner loop reduced the runtime of this
    example by more than 10%.  In a real-world case it wouldn't be as useful
    a speedup, but it still seems worth adding a few lines here.
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