Serialization in SQL
Learn to understand serialization in SQL by exploring its role in data representation and transactional systems within PostgreSQL. This lesson helps you grasp how to convert in-memory data structures into readable formats and retrieve them, comparing approaches like Lisp's print-readably method to database storage solutions. Gain insights into the practical implications for handling data types and managing data integrity in database operations.
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It’s all too common to see RDBMS mentioned as a solution to marshaling and unmarshaling in-memory objects, and even distributed computed systems tend to talk about the storage parts for databases. We should talk about transactional systems rather than storage when we want to talk about RDBMS and other transaction technologies. That said, storage is a good name for distributed file systems.
Common Lisp
On this topic, it might be interesting to realize how Lisp introduced print-readably. In Lisp, rather than working with a compiler and then running static binary files, we work with an interactive REPL where ...