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Re: Status of binary protocol usage?


  • From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
  • To: aaime74 <andrea(dot)aime(at)gmail(dot)com>
  • Cc: pgsql-jdbc(at)postgresql(dot)org
  • Subject: Re: Status of binary protocol usage?
  • Date: Mon, 25 Jun 2007 00:15:59 -0400
  • Message-id: <12468.1182744959@sss.pgh.pa.us> <text/plain>

aaime74 <andrea(dot)aime(at)gmail(dot)com> writes:
> Hum, interesting. What would be the boatload of disadvantages?

Portability and cross-machine compatibility, or lack of same.

It's tough enough trying to make things work for relatively primitive
datatypes like float.  I can hardly imagine that anyone would want to
support binary representations across platforms for geometric types.

			regards, tom lane



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