Re: Re: COPY BINARY file format proposal - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From ncm@zembu.com (Nathan Myers)
Subject Re: Re: COPY BINARY file format proposal
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Msg-id 20001210160858.A6081@store.zembu.com
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In response to Re: Re: COPY BINARY file format proposal  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
Responses Re: Re: COPY BINARY file format proposal  ("Ross J. Reedstrom" <reedstrm@rice.edu>)
Re: Re: COPY BINARY file format proposal  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
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On Thu, Dec 07, 2000 at 02:28:28PM -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
> Given all that, here is a proposed spec for the header:
>  ...
> Comments?

I've been thinking about this.  

I'd like to see a timestamp for when the image was created, and a 
128-byte comment field to allow annotations, even after the fact.
(I don't think we're pressed for space, right?)  The more chances
that you don't have to actually load the file to find out what's
in it, the better.

(I have also suggested, in private mail, that the "header length" 
field should be the length of the whole header, not just whatever 
was added on in versions 2..n.  Tom didn't agree.)

Nathan Myers
ncm@zembu.com


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