On 02/23/2011 02:21 PM, Andrew Chernow wrote:
Binary mode had serious limitations, such as portability.
What are the other limitations?
As far as portability is concerned, we are using it on many different
operating systems and architectures without issue. Even our most
recent bump to 9.0.1 and 9.0.3 was flawless in regard to
libpq/libpqtypes.
It's probably fine if you can control both ends. But there is no
guarantee of portability, nor does it seem likely to me there ever will
be, so I don't find your assertion terribly useful. The fact that it
hasn't broken for you doesn't mean it can't or won't be.
The other downside I see is that binary protocols are often a lot harder
to debug, but maybe that's just me.
cheers
andrew
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