| From: | Steven Schlansker <stevenschlansker(at)gmail(dot)com> |
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| To: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
| Cc: | Dave Cramer <pg(at)fastcrypt(dot)com>, Timo Nentwig <postgres(at)nentwig(dot)biz>, List <pgsql-jdbc(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: float8 transmitted in ascii |
| Date: | 2015-04-30 17:05:25 |
| Message-ID: | 0A1C3AE4-C08B-4EC7-AF92-0AC2799F24BB@gmail.com |
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On Apr 30, 2015, at 9:36 AM, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
> Dave Cramer <pg(at)fastcrypt(dot)com> writes:
>> I'm not convinced it is being transmitted in ASCII. It should not be
>
> Transmission in binary would require an assumption that the server and
> client share identical floating-point representations, which sure sounds
> like a leap of faith from here (or at least blind Intel-centricism).
Why not just specify the binary format as IEEE 754? Native to many machines,
and probably cheaper to convert than ASCII anyway if it's not native.
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