Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@dcc.uchile.cl> writes:
> Is there any reason why we don't use a binary storage in custom format
> dumps? I mean, we could open a binary cursor and write the results to
> the file, and read it back at restore time. This is just handwaving of
> course.
> I guess the reason is cross-version portability?
Cross-platform portability, too.
regards, tom lane