At 01:40 AM 8/9/00 +1000, Philip Warner wrote:
>This makes me think that some kind of binary dump in pg_dump is probably
>not a bad idea. Has anybody looked at doing a cross-platform binary COPY?
>Or some other way of representing base types - we have <type>in/out maybe
><type>exp/imp (export/import) might be useful to get a portable, lossless
>representation.
Another way to do it is to dump/restore floats in hex, maintaining the
actual binary values.
Conversion to hex, unlike conversion to decimal, is exact (16 is a power
of 2 while 10 is not, to add to your "more knowledge than you want" about
floats!)
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