Tom,
On 12/3/05 12:32 PM, "Tom Lane" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> "Luke Lonergan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>> Last I looked at the Postgres binary dump format, it was not portable or
>> efficient enough to suit the need. The efficiency problem with it was that
>> there was descriptive information attached to each individual data item, as
>> compared to the approach where that information is specified once for the
>> data group as a template for input.
>
> Are you complaining about the length words? Get real...
Hmm - "<sizeof int><int>" repeat, efficiency is 1/2 of "<int>" repeat. I
think that's worth complaining about.
- Luke
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