"Luke Lonergan" <llonergan@greenplum.com> writes:
> Last I looked at the Postgres binary dump format, it was not portable or
> efficient enough to suit the need. The efficiency problem with it was that
> there was descriptive information attached to each individual data item, as
> compared to the approach where that information is specified once for the
> data group as a template for input.
Are you complaining about the length words? Get real...
regards, tom lane