On Tue, Oct 15, 2013 at 11:02:39AM -0400, Robert Haas wrote: > >> goals may be in conflict; we'll have to pick something. > > > > Note that parsing COPYs is a major PITA from most languages... > > > > Perhaps we should make the default output json instead? With every > > action terminated by a nullbyte? > > That's probably easier to parse from various scripting languages than > > anything else. > > I could go for that. It's not quite as compact as I might hope, but > JSON does seem to make people awfully happy. > > -- > Robert Haas > EnterpriseDB: http://www.enterprisedb.com > The Enterprise PostgreSQL Company >
Feeding such a JSON stream into a compression algorithm like lz4 or snappy should result in a pretty compact stream. The latest lz4 updates also have ability to use a pre-existing dictionary which would really help remove the redundant pieces. Regards, Ken -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
