On Oct 19, 2010, at 12:17 PM, Robert Haas wrote:
> I think we should take a few steps back and ask why we think that
> binary encoding is the way to go. We store XML as text, for example,
> and I can't remember any complaints about that on -bugs or
> -performance, so why do we think JSON will be different? Binary
> encoding is a trade-off. A well-designed binary encoding should make
> it quicker to extract a small chunk of a large JSON object and return
> it; however, it will also make it slower to return the whole object
> (because you're adding serialization overhead). I haven't seen any
> analysis of which of those use cases is more important and why.
Maybe someone has numbers on that for the XML type?
Best,
David