Re: Abandoning PGobject

Hi, Oliver,

Oliver Jowett schrieb:

>> - How do we handle endianness? PostGIS canonical binary representation
>> includes endian information, but what about the other types?
>
> I have not looked at your code,

Well, currently, it is rather a skeleton than a code, and endianness
just does not exist :-)

> but the simplest approach seems to be to
> only support binary transfer on V3 connections. The standard V3 types
> have binary representations that use fixed endianness irregardless of
> the endianness of the server.

That sounds good. So type implementors will have four possibilities:

- use fixed endianness for canonical binary representation (as the
built-in types do, preferred solution)
- include an endianness flag in the data (as PostGIS does, following the
OpenGIS wkb spec)
- probe the endianness on connection initialization (forConnection() method)
- fall back to text only representation.

Markus
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