On Mon, Feb 27, 2017 at 09:28:10PM +0530, Robert Haas wrote:
> I don't think Bruce was seriously proposing a change in this area
> anyway. I think he was just asking a question.
That is correct. I was asking if we made an obvious mistake, and most
people are saying no. Also, base64 is less easy to compress because
input bytes span base64-bytes, so "dog" might encode differently
depending on where the two high bits are stored, while hex alway encodes
"dog" the same way.
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