On 02/05/2014 06:48 PM, Tom Lane wrote: > Andrew Dunstan <and...@dunslane.net> writes: >> On 02/05/2014 11:40 AM, Tom Lane wrote: >>> switching to "binary is the same as text" may well be the most prudent >>> path here. >> If we do that we're going to have to live with that forever, aren't we? > Yeah, but the other side of that coin is that we'll have to live forever > with whatever binary format we pick, too. If it turns out to be badly > designed, that could be much worse than eating some parsing costs during > dump/restore. The fastest and lowest parsing cost format for "JSON" is tnetstrings http://tnetstrings.org/ why not use it as the binary wire format ?
It would be as binary as it gets and still be generally parse-able by lots of different platforms, at leas by all of these we care about. Cheers Hannu -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
