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