Heikki Linnakangas <heikki.linnakan...@enterprisedb.com> writes: > Tom Lane wrote: >> I'm thinking plain old pairs-of-hex-digits might be the best >> tradeoff if conversion speed is the criterion.
> That's a lot less space-efficient than base64, though. Well, base64 could give a 33% savings, but it's significantly harder to encode/decode. Also, since it has a much larger set of valid data characters, it would be *much* more likely to allow old-style formatting to be mistaken for new-style. Unless we can think of a more bulletproof format selection mechanism, that could be an overriding consideration. regards, tom lane -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers