Tom, On 12/3/05 12:32 PM, "Tom Lane" <tgl@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > "Luke Lonergan" <llonergan@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> 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
