Re: [HACKERS] problems with sunos4 port, endian? - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Bruce Momjian
Subject Re: [HACKERS] problems with sunos4 port, endian?
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In response to [HACKERS] problems with sunos4 port, endian?  (Chris McGonagle <pglist@FOUR.net>)
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> On Thu, 19 Jun 1997, Tatsuo Ishii wrote:
>
> > >I would love to here some enlightened opinions on this.
> > >
> > >It was my belief that we didn't change the communication in 6.1, and
> > >that all communication between different systems was working properly.
> >
> > My experience shows 6.1 cannot communicate if endian is
> > different. Please let me know if I misunderstand anything.
>
>     my understanding was that *someone* out there was going to be
> working on rewriting the interface to rectify this problem...?

I thought they were going to change the interface so it communicated in
network-standard byte order.

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Bruce Momjian
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