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"I've argued before that we should allow the client to specify which types it wants as binary, unless explicitly specified. IMO that's the only way to solve thi

• anarazel 7y ago
  We should allow the client, on the protocol level, to add (and presumably remove) types to a server side list of types that can automatically be sent in binary if the result format is specified as 'auto'. That way a driver can add handling for ~10 builtin types (bytea, int[48], float[48], timestamp, ...) that matter from a size/efficiency POV, without needing to handle all the other types. That'd provide a large large fraction of the potential benefit of handling binary for all types. The reason for the server side list is that otherwise I don't see how you could do it without an added roundtrip.