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    Binary mode can be a big time saving on some inputs, such as timestamps, where parsing them is nontrivial. For many data types it doesn't offer much benefit or is can even be slightly slower due to increased bandwidth (e.g. small integers). Good point raising it. Commented Apr 7, 2015 at 14:10
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    Does anyone know how much this is relevant for inserting JSON data into json or jsonb columns? Commented Feb 2, 2023 at 8:55