On Tue, Feb 11, 2020 at 11:53 AM Shichao Jin <jsc0...@gmail.com> wrote: > We are currently integrating LSM-tree based storage engine RocksDB into > Postgres. I am wondering is there any function that serialize data types in > memory-comparable format, similar to MySQL and MariaDB. With that kind of > function, we can directly store the serialized format in the storage engine > and compare them in the storage engine level instead of deserializing data > and comparing in the upper level.
Do you mean a format that can perform Index comparisons using a memcmp() rather than per-datatype comparison code? -- Peter Geoghegan