On 01.07.2013 22:56, Tyler Romeo wrote:
Petr is right on par with this one. The purpose of
this version 2 for dumps
is to allow protocol-specific incremental updating of the dump, which would
be significantly more difficult in non-binary format.
Why the dumps cannot be just split into daily or weekly XML files
(optionally compressed ones). Such way the seeking will be performed by
simply opening YYYY.MM.DD.xml file.
It is so much simplier than going for binary git-like formats. Which
would take a bit less space but are more prone to bugs and impossible to
extract and analyze/edit via text/XML processing utils.
Dmitriy