Re: Binary tx format for an array?

Hi, Dave,

Dave Cramer wrote:

> I'm curious. Are you attempting to implement the binary protocol for the
> jdbc driver ?
>
> If so, how are you dealing with date types which are either 64 bit or
> floating point.
>
> Have you done any testing to see if it is actually faster ?
>
> There's certainly no question with timestamp/date parsing, others may be
> questionable .

At least for PostGIS (which uses a hexed representation for text
protocol currently), I expect the data volume to be exactly 50% for binary.

Bytea and blobs may be similar.


Markus



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