| From: | Markus Schiltknecht <markus(at)bluegap(dot)ch> |
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| To: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
| 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 15:29:55 |
| Message-ID: | 46EE9D73.1090009@bluegap.ch |
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Hello Tom,
Tom Lane wrote:
> I think you'd be nuts to bet your data on the binary representations
> really being cross-platform compatible.
Can you elaborate on this? AFAICT the send/recv functions use network
byte ordering. What are the other problems between different architectures?
> There might be some excuse for
> doing this within a single architecture, but I can't get very excited
> about it ...
Is the textual representation (i.e. OidOutputFunctionCall) more cross
platform compatible?
Gregory Stark wrote:
> Well they're not very useful for their intended purpose of
> client-server communication if they're not.
Agreed. Up until now, I'd have considered it a bug, if a send/recv on
different platforms would not lead to the very same result.
Regards
Markus
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