aaime74 <andrea(dot)aime(at)gmail(dot)com> writes:
> Hum, interesting. What would be the boatload of disadvantages?
Portability and cross-machine compatibility, or lack of same.
It's tough enough trying to make things work for relatively primitive
datatypes like float. I can hardly imagine that anyone would want to
support binary representations across platforms for geometric types.
regards, tom lane