Re: Memory-comparable Serialization of Data Types

From: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>
To: Peter Geoghegan <pg(at)bowt(dot)ie>
Cc: Shichao Jin <jsc0218(at)gmail(dot)com>, PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Memory-comparable Serialization of Data Types
Date: 2020-02-11 21:40:38
Message-ID: 20200211214038.GA26612@alvherre.pgsql
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On 2020-Feb-11, Peter Geoghegan wrote:

> On Tue, Feb 11, 2020 at 12:19 PM Shichao Jin <jsc0218(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
> > Yes, this is exactly what I mean.
>
> PostgreSQL doesn't have this capability. It might make sense to have
> it for some specific data structures,

I think adding that would be too much of a burden, both for the project
itself as for third-party type definitions; I think we'd rather rely on
calling the BTORDER_PROC btree support function for the type.

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Álvaro Herrera https://www.2ndQuadrant.com/
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