On Apr 30, 2015, at 9:36 AM, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
> Dave Cramer <pg@fastcrypt.com> writes:
>> I'm not convinced it is being transmitted in ASCII. It should not be
>
> Transmission in binary would require an assumption that the server and
> client share identical floating-point representations, which sure sounds
> like a leap of faith from here (or at least blind Intel-centricism).
Why not just specify the binary format as IEEE 754? Native to many machines,
and probably cheaper to convert than ASCII anyway if it's not native.
