From: Luke Lonergan <llonergan@greenplum.com>
To: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Cc: Stephen Frost <sfrost@snowman.net>
Cc: David Lang <dlang@invendra.net>
Cc: Steve Oualline <soualline@stbernard.com>
Cc: pgsql-performance@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: Database restore speed
Date: Sat, 03 Dec 2005 13:29:01 -0800
Message-ID: <BFB74E1D.14FE4%llonergan@greenplum.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <2404.1133641940@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Tom,
On 12/3/05 12:32 PM, "Tom Lane" <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
> "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...
Hmm - "<sizeof int><int>" repeat, efficiency is 1/2 of "<int>" repeat. I
think that's worth complaining about.
- Luke
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