On Sat, Feb 25, 2017 at 06:49:01PM -0500, Peter Eisentraut wrote: > On 2/23/17 17:55, Bruce Momjian wrote: > > On Thu, Feb 23, 2017 at 04:08:58PM -0500, Tom Lane wrote: > >> Bruce Momjian <br...@momjian.us> writes: > >>> Is there a reason we don't support base64 as a bytea_output output > >>> option, except that no one has implemented it? > >> > >> How about "we already have one too many bytea output formats"? > >> I don't think forcing code to try to support still another one > >> is a great thing ... especially not if it couldn't be reliably > >> distinguished from the hex format. > > > > Is there a reason we chose hex over base64? > > The reason we changed from the old format to hex was for performance. > We didn't consider base64 at the time, but hex would probably still have > been faster.
OK, good to know. I was just asking. -- Bruce Momjian <br...@momjian.us> http://momjian.us EnterpriseDB http://enterprisedb.com + As you are, so once was I. As I am, so you will be. + + Ancient Roman grave inscription + -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
