Re: Database restore speed

"Luke Lonergan" <llonergan@greenplum.com> writes:
> Last I looked at the Postgres binary dump format, it was not portable or
> efficient enough to suit the need.  The efficiency problem with it was that
> there was descriptive information attached to each individual data item, as
> compared to the approach where that information is specified once for the
> data group as a template for input.

Are you complaining about the length words?  Get real...

            regards, tom lane