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Paolo Ciarrocchi wrote:
> 
> > it appears that this benefit came from the special usercopy code.
> > What sort of CPU are you using?
> 
> It is a PIII@800.

hm, don't know.  I built the latest postgres locally.  Perhaps the
alignment of some application buffer is different.