Re: bytea vs. pg_dump - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Bernd Helmle
Subject Re: bytea vs. pg_dump
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Msg-id D08C7A479A329583CB864EB4@teje
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In response to Re: bytea vs. pg_dump  (Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net>)
Responses Re: bytea vs. pg_dump
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--On Dienstag, Mai 05, 2009 16:57:50 -0400 Andrew Dunstan 
<andrew@dunslane.net> wrote:

> Hex will already provide some space savings over our current encoding
> method for most byteas anyway. It's not like we'd be making things less
> efficient space-wise. And in compressed archives the space difference is
> likely to dissolve to not very much, I suspect.

I'm dumb: I don't understand why a hex conversion would be significantly 
faster than what we have now?

--  Thanks
                   Bernd


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