On Wed, Apr 27, 2016 at 05:05:18PM -0400, Stephen Frost wrote: > * Merlin Moncure (mmonc...@gmail.com) wrote: > > On Tue, Apr 26, 2016 at 11:49 AM, Stephen Frost <sfr...@snowman.net> wrote: > > > As I mentioned to Sehrope on IRC, at least for my 2c, if you want a > > > compact JSON format to reduce the amount of traffic over the wire or to > > > do things with on the client side, we should probably come up with a > > > binary format, rather than just hack out the whitespace. It's not like > > > representing numbers using ASCII characters is terribly efficient > > > either. > > > > -1 > > > > This will benefit pretty much nobody unless you are writing a hand > > crafted C application that consumes and processes the data directly. > > That's not accurate. All that's needed is for the libraries which > either wrap libpq or re-implement it to be updated to understand the > format and then convert the data into whatever structure makes sense for > the language (or library that the language includes for working with > JSON data). > > One of the unfortunate realities with JSON is that there isn't a > terribly good binary representation, afaik. As I understand it, BSON > doesn't support all the JSON structures that we do; if it did, I'd > suggest we provide a way to convert our structure into BSON.
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