| From: | Markus Schiltknecht <markus(at)bluegap(dot)ch> |
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| To: | Gregory Stark <stark(at)enterprisedb(dot)com> |
| Cc: | 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 13:21:38 |
| Message-ID: | 46EE7F62.7090909@bluegap.ch |
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Hi,
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?
Regards
Markus
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