| From: | Zdenek Kotala <Zdenek(dot)Kotala(at)Sun(dot)COM> |
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| To: | Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us> |
| Cc: | Neil Conway <neilc(at)samurai(dot)com>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: Integer datetimes |
| Date: | 2007-05-07 06:28:40 |
| Message-ID: | 463EC718.3090508@sun.com |
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Bruce Momjian wrote:
> Neil Conway wrote:
>> On Sat, 2007-05-05 at 20:52 -0400, Bruce Momjian wrote:
>>> What? We don't pass float as a binary to clients.
>> Sure we do, if the client is sending or receiving data in binary format.
>
> But in those cases, we assume the client and server have the same
> configuration, right?
>
It is correct assumption, but I did not find it in documentation and if
you look on floating data type description there is mention about non
IEEE 754 platform, but nothing about this assumption.
I think IEEE 754 compliance must be required on all platforms.
Zdenek
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