Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net> writes:
> Tom Lane wrote:
>> pg_controldata is certainly already being read as binary.
> Umm, no, it is in the backend I believe but not in the utilities. Hence
> the original bug report. We need to add the binary flag in
> pg_controldata.c and pg_resetxlog.c.
Ah, okay, that's surely a bug. But I think the discussion here was
about adding PG_BINARY to *all* open requests. That I don't like.
regards, tom lane