Re: [HACKERS] problems with sunos4 port, endian?

>
> Tatsuo Ishii wrote:
> > Here is a patch to fix the endian problem of 6.1. With this patch,
> > your big endian postgres server will begin to speak little endian as
> > 6.0!
>
> I have tested this patch on my Linux/i686/little-endian machine with
> v6.1 and it does not damage my already working installation.
>
> Tatsuo I. reports successful tests on several platforms. I vaguely
> recall that someone else reported success on a mixed-endian pair of
> platforms. Is there any reason to not introduce it into the source tree?
>
> If no one expresses reservations in the next couple of days, and if no
> one claims the job, I will go ahead and commit this to the source tree
> as a candidate change for the upcoming jumbo-patch.
>
>             - Tom
>
> btw, I used the patch which was re-posted by Tatsuo a couple of days ago
> and which included as new patch for postgres.h as well as the original
> patch for pqcomprim.c

Let's put it in so people can start testing the beta for 6.1p1.

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Bruce Momjian
maillist@candle.pha.pa.us

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