Binary Cursors and On-The-Wire

7.4 changed the external representation in which BINARY CURSOR results
> > are delivered. Before 7.4 you got the (very machine- and even version-
> > dependent) server internal representation; now you get an on-the-wire
> > representation that we hope to keep stable.

Tom or group, can you please clarify exactly what on-the-wire means?

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