Serialize

While fixing the handling of "unknown" data type in the result set I was
faced with wading through the Serialize code.

I am wondering if this is really a required/desireable feature?

How many people out there are actually using it?

Do we need/want it?

My thoughts are:

1) There are plenty of persistence layers which do this job much better.

2) I don't think this belongs in a driver.
3) The code will be simpler.

Dave