From: | Michael Robinson <robinson(at)public(dot)bta(dot)net(dot)cn> |
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To: | pgsql-interfaces(at)hub(dot)org |
Subject: | RE: [INTERFACES] Updated IDL with considerations for COSS |
Date: | 1998-11-16 16:01:37 |
Message-ID: | 199811161601.AAA15830@public.bta.net.cn |
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"Taral" <taral(at)cyberjunkie(dot)com> writes:
>module PostgreSQL { // Note we already separate our namespace
> module Types {
> typedef short int2;
> typedef short int4;
> // etc.
> }
Works for me.
>> I would recommend that fixed-length PostgreSQL types be defined as little-
>> endian arrays of long or octet type, whichever is appropriate. E.g.:
>>
>> typedef long pgtype_int8[2];
>> typedef long pgtype_int28[4];
>> typedef octet pgtype_macaddr[6];
>> typedef octet pgtype_filename[256];
I think I meant big-endian (that *is* "network order", isn't it? I always
forget). Anyway, you get the point.
>P.S. Would it be possible to make a pgsql/src/corba module and let me check
>this IDL file into it? That way I don't have to keep reposting it.
Well, until it's fairly stable, keep reposting it. That way people don't
have to keep checking for changes in the tree.
-Michael Robinson
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