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.

-Tony