I would also add, for data-science esc tasks (or bulk queries in general) - COPY {} TO is unreasonably fast - often much faster than executing the standard sele

I would also add, for data-science esc tasks (or bulk queries in general) - COPY {} TO is unreasonably fast - often much faster than executing the standard select (especially if that select is being executed by a driver in a slower language). _ [0] https://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.2/sql-copy.html https://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.2/sql-copy.html