Re: Status of binary protocol usage? - Mailing list pgsql-jdbc

From Tom Lane
Subject Re: Status of binary protocol usage?
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Msg-id 12468.1182744959@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to Re: Status of binary protocol usage?  (aaime74 <andrea.aime@gmail.com>)
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aaime74 <andrea.aime@gmail.com> writes:
> Hum, interesting. What would be the boatload of disadvantages?

Portability and cross-machine compatibility, or lack of same.

It's tough enough trying to make things work for relatively primitive
datatypes like float.  I can hardly imagine that anyone would want to
support binary representations across platforms for geometric types.

            regards, tom lane

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