On 2015-06-04 03:04, Darko Volaric wrote: > Regarding PgSQL, an advantage of encoding your own binary types is that you > can copy them straight into your code and execute with them directly - I > use the same encoding/data structures throughout and they serve my code and > requirements instead of the database's or its API.
That will only work if the data serialization format of a software is the same its your in-memory representation. Most likely you will have to deal with endianness and related issues. It is also a more general problem of "zero-copy" serialization formats. Text has its advantages and disadvantages of course. For my purpose a text format with a regular grammar is an acceptable format in terms of storage efficiency and serialization and deserialization performance. - Matthias-Christian
