| From: | Bruce Momjian <maillist(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us> |
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| To: | "G(dot) Anthony Reina" <reina(at)nsi(dot)edu> |
| Cc: | "pgsql-hackers(at)postgreSQL(dot)org" <pgsql-hackers(at)postgreSQL(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: [HACKERS] Binary cursor header changed from 20 to 16 Bytes? |
| Date: | 1999-08-02 17:02:43 |
| Message-ID: | 199908021702.NAA03758@candle.pha.pa.us |
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> Bruce Momjian wrote:
>
> > I don't think you can do binary cursors across architectures. The
> > internal formats for most types are different, though you may be able to
> > get away with string fields and int if the endian is the same.
> >
>
> No, it works just fine. All you have to do is to swap the endian format (Linux Intel
> is little endian; SGI is big endian). We've been using this approach since Postgres
> 6.3.
>
What doesn't work? Floats? Alignment problems?
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