Re: Memory-comparable Serialization of Data Types - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Alvaro Herrera
Subject Re: Memory-comparable Serialization of Data Types
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Msg-id 20200211214038.GA26612@alvherre.pgsql
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In response to Re: Memory-comparable Serialization of Data Types  (Peter Geoghegan <pg@bowt.ie>)
Responses Re: Memory-comparable Serialization of Data Types
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On 2020-Feb-11, Peter Geoghegan wrote:

> On Tue, Feb 11, 2020 at 12:19 PM Shichao Jin <jsc0218@gmail.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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