On Mon, Mar 29, 2010 at 12:02 PM, Tom Lane <t...@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote: > Robert Haas <robertmh...@gmail.com> writes: >> On Sun, Mar 28, 2010 at 11:24 PM, Joseph Adams >> <joeyadams3.14...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> My reasoning for "It should be built-in" is: >>> * It would be nice to have a built-in serialization format that's >>> available by default. >>> * It might be a little faster because it doesn't have to link to an >>> external library. > >> I don't think either of these reasons is valid. > > FWIW, our track record with relying on external libraries has been less > than great --- "upstream will maintain it" sounds good but has fallen > over with respect to both the regex engine and the snowball stemmers, > to take two examples. And libxml2 has been nothing but a source of pain. > > If this is going to end up being one fairly small C file implementing > a spec that is not a moving target, I'd vote against depending on an > external library instead, no matter how spiffy and license-compatible > the external library might be.
Fair enough. Note that I did go on to say which reasons I did think were potentially valid. ;-) ...Robert -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
