Alvaro Herrera <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Is there any reason why we don't use a binary storage in custom format > dumps? I mean, we could open a binary cursor and write the results to > the file, and read it back at restore time. This is just handwaving of > course.
> I guess the reason is cross-version portability? Cross-platform portability, too. regards, tom lane ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 3: if posting/reading through Usenet, please send an appropriate subscribe-nomail command to [EMAIL PROTECTED] so that your message can get through to the mailing list cleanly