Re: [HACKERS] Binary cursor header changed from 20 to 16 Bytes?

> 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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