| From: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
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| To: | Markus Schiltknecht <markus(at)bluegap(dot)ch> |
| Cc: | Gregory Stark <stark(at)enterprisedb(dot)com>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: [COMMITTERS] pgsql: Fix up text concatenation so that it accepts all the reasonable |
| Date: | 2007-09-17 13:44:21 |
| Message-ID: | 21566.1190036661@sss.pgh.pa.us |
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Markus Schiltknecht <markus(at)bluegap(dot)ch> writes:
> Gregory Stark wrote:
>> Perhaps if you're doing some form of replication between different
>> architectures you might want to use binary representation for your transfers.
>> Or if you're doing something in a PL language like compressing or bundling up
>> multiple data in a container format or something.
> I'm not quite sure I understand where you're coming from, but isn't that
> what the send and recv functions for most data types are for? Don't
> those provide a cross-platform compatible binary representation?
I think you'd be nuts to bet your data on the binary representations
really being cross-platform compatible. There might be some excuse for
doing this within a single architecture, but I can't get very excited
about it ...
regards, tom lane
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