Re: Memory-comparable Serialization of Data Types

Yes, this is exactly what I mean.

On Tue, 11 Feb 2020 at 15:01, Peter Geoghegan <pg(at)bowt(dot)ie> wrote:

> On Tue, Feb 11, 2020 at 11:53 AM Shichao Jin <jsc0218(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
> > We are currently integrating LSM-tree based storage engine RocksDB into
> Postgres. I am wondering is there any function that serialize data types in
> memory-comparable format, similar to MySQL and MariaDB. With that kind of
> function, we can directly store the serialized format in the storage engine
> and compare them in the storage engine level instead of deserializing data
> and comparing in the upper level.
>
> Do you mean a format that can perform Index comparisons using a
> memcmp() rather than per-datatype comparison code?
>
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> Peter Geoghegan
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