| From: | Philip Warner <pjw(at)rhyme(dot)com(dot)au> |
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| To: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
| Cc: | pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: Re: COPY BINARY file format proposal |
| Date: | 2000-12-08 07:15:30 |
| Message-ID: | 3.0.5.32.20001208181530.0232b560@mail.rhyme.com.au |
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At 01:27 8/12/00 -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
>Recovering the data on a machine
>of different endianness is a project for future data archeologists.
It's frightening to think that in 1000 years time people will be deducing
things about our society from the way we stored data.
>
>Tell you the truth, I don't believe in file-format version numbers at
>all...
>(RFC 2083, esp section 12.13) --- the versioning philosophy described
>there is largely yours truly's.
Seems to be a much better approach; (non)critical chunks & chunk types are
much more portable.
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