= RFC3: serialized format (storage) for RASTER type = '''Author''': Bborie Park [[BR]] '''Date''': 2015-01-25[[BR]] '''Status''': Draft == Goals == The goals for Version 1 of the serialized RASTER format are: * '''Out-db band index''' Allow out-db band indexes > 255 * '''Internal compression''' Instead of PostgreSQL's TOAST compression, use a faster algorithm (e.g. LZ4, Blosc) * '''Metadata support''' Support for variable length records for each raster and each band