Re: binary compat - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Paul Matthews
Subject Re: binary compat
Date
Msg-id 4A9CFC11.2020300@netspace.net.au
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In response to binary compat  (Dimitri Fontaine <dfontaine@hi-media.com>)
List pgsql-hackers
Dimitri Fontaine wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I've been idly thinking about binary COPY and recent performance efforts
> spent on it. The main problem I have with binary output is that I never
> know when it'll be any useful (except very same hardware and PostgreSQL
> setup)... useful meaning I get to read it back into some database.
>   
If you want a binary cross compatible, how about something well known,
standardized, simple and cross platform like XDR?
http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc1014.html

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Some can avoid it. Geniuses remove it.



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