On 02/05/2014 06:48 PM, Tom Lane wrote:
> Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net> writes:
>> On 02/05/2014 11:40 AM, Tom Lane wrote:
>>> switching to "binary is the same as text" may well be the most prudent
>>> path here.
>> If we do that we're going to have to live with that forever, aren't we?
> Yeah, but the other side of that coin is that we'll have to live forever
> with whatever binary format we pick, too. If it turns out to be badly
> designed, that could be much worse than eating some parsing costs during
> dump/restore.
The fastest and lowest parsing cost format for "JSON" is tnetstrings
http://tnetstrings.org/ why not use it as the binary wire format ?
It would be as binary as it gets and still be generally parse-able by
lots of different platforms, at leas by all of these we care about.
Cheers
Hannu