| From: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
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| To: | Shachar Shemesh <shachar(at)shemesh(dot)biz> |
| Cc: | Julian Heeb <heebj2000(at)yahoo(dot)de>, oledb-devel(at)pgfoundry(dot)org, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: Re: [Oledb-dev] double precision error with pg linux server, but not with windows pg server |
| Date: | 2007-05-19 18:03:13 |
| Message-ID: | 14654.1179597793@sss.pgh.pa.us |
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Shachar Shemesh <shachar(at)shemesh(dot)biz> writes:
> I've received a bug report on the OLE DB list, which I suspect is
> actually a server bug. The correspondence so far is listed further on,
> but, in a nutshell, user runs an OLE DB client on windows (OLE DB uses
> the binary interface), and server version 8.1.9 on Windows, and all is
> fine. When the server is switched to 8.1.8 on Debian Etch on ARM9,
> float8 type is not received properly by OLE DB.
Perhaps OLE is trying to use binary instead of text transmission of
data? It's not a server bug if ARM has a different FP format than
the client hardware; it's the client's responsibility to either use
text format or be prepared to cope with whatever the binary format is.
regards, tom lane
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