id summary reporter owner description type status priority milestone component version resolution keywords cc 2263 [raster] Audit usage of serialize/deserialize vs wkb/hexwkb Bborie Park Bborie Park "An audit needs to be done to delineate the usage of serialize/deserialize and wkb/hexwkb. At the present time, serialize/deserialize and wkb/hexwkb are the same and has possibly caused the blind usage of wkb/hexwkb when serialize/deserialize is appropriate and vice versa. The key difference between serialize/deserialize and wkb/hexwkb is: 1. serialize/deserialize: Internal storage format. The output seen from a query like the following should be of this format. {{{ SELECT rast FROM mytable }}} 2. wkb/hexwkb: Transport format. This format is meant for use by and must be explicitly called for by clients. To get wkb/hexwkb output, the clients must use ST_AsBinary(). The rational for this is so that in the future, these two formats can deviate from each other (particularly the internal storage format)." task closed high PostGIS 2.5.0 raster master fixed