Re: Database restore speed

Tom,

On 12/3/05 12:32 PM, "Tom Lane"  wrote:

> "Luke Lonergan"  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...

Hmm - "" repeat, efficiency is 1/2 of "" repeat.  I
think that's worth complaining about.

- Luke