Re: [COMMITTERS] pgsql: Fix up text concatenation so that it accepts all the reasonable

Hello Tom,

Tom Lane wrote:
> I think you'd be nuts to bet your data on the binary representations
> really being cross-platform compatible.

Can you elaborate on this? AFAICT the send/recv functions use network 
byte ordering. What are the other problems between different architectures?

> There might be some excuse for
> doing this within a single architecture, but I can't get very excited
> about it ...

Is the textual representation (i.e. OidOutputFunctionCall) more cross 
platform compatible?

Gregory Stark wrote:> Well they're not very useful for their intended purpose of> client-server communication if
they'renot.
 

Agreed. Up until now, I'd have considered it a bug, if a send/recv on 
different platforms would not lead to the very same result.

Regards

Markus