>Thanks, Sergey!
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>I used the method you advised and while its performance didn't come out as good as the original SELECT, the performance of the COPY TO WHILE did "even out" in that it worked much faster on larger datasets than the original COPY TO FOR..This makes me think that the COPY TO command just has a little overhead that can't be gotten around..
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>anyways, thanks alot.

You're welcome.