Re: [HACKERS] send()/receive() and on-disk storage

2006-09-29 Thread Markus Schaber
Hi, Martijn, Martijn van Oosterhout wrote: > It would be terribly inefficient to call those functions for each > read/write. The disk has the internal format, send/receive deal with a > portable not-host-dependant representation of the data. Thanks. Markus -- Markus Schaber | Logical Tracking

Re: [HACKERS] send()/receive() and on-disk storage

2006-09-29 Thread Martijn van Oosterhout
On Fri, Sep 29, 2006 at 03:44:07PM +0200, Markus Schaber wrote: > Does PostgreSQL call the datatypes' defined send() function before > storing the tuple data in the table, on disk, and call receive() when > reading it again? No. > My position was that send()/receive() are only used for client > c

[HACKERS] send()/receive() and on-disk storage

2006-09-29 Thread Markus Schaber
Hi, Currently, there's a discussion on the pljava list, and we're confused about a small detail: Does PostgreSQL call the datatypes' defined send() function before storing the tuple data in the table, on disk, and call receive() when reading it again? My position was that send()/receive() are on