Re: [COMMITTERS] pgsql: Fix up text concatenation so that it accepts all the reasonable

From: Gregory Stark <stark(at)enterprisedb(dot)com>
To: "Tom Lane" <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: "Markus Schiltknecht" <markus(at)bluegap(dot)ch>, <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 14:32:29
Message-ID: 871wcxnz0i.fsf@oxford.xeocode.com
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"Tom Lane" <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> writes:

> 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 ...

Well they're not very useful for their intended purpose of client-server
communication if they're not.

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Gregory Stark
EnterpriseDB http://www.enterprisedb.com

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