Re: [GSoC Idea Discussion] "Thrift datatype support" Project

Technically speaking, Thrift is "language-independent" serialization-deserialization format with clean approach to backward compatibility.

I think Thrift (or something like that) can be useful, as it can generate serializers/deserializers for lots of languages.

PostgreSQL's "binary" format is tied to the PostgreSQL and it has to be reimplemented for each and every client language.

"text" format is non-trivial as well (e.g. it is hard to get quoting right for structs, and text is server-locale-dependent)

Vladimir