Re: Binary support for pgoutput plugin - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Andres Freund
Subject Re: Binary support for pgoutput plugin
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Msg-id 20190604220817.ryu4cm63layrwfgr@alap3.anarazel.de
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In response to Re: Binary support for pgoutput plugin  (David Fetter <david@fetter.org>)
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Re: Binary support for pgoutput plugin
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Hi,

On 2019-06-05 00:05:02 +0200, David Fetter wrote:
> Would it make sense to work toward a binary format that's not
> architecture-specific? I recall from COPY that our binary format is
> not standardized across, for example, big- and little-endian machines.

I think you recall wrongly. It's obviously possible that we have bugs
around this, but output/input routines are supposed to handle a
endianess independent format. That usually means that you have to do
endianess conversions, but that doesn't make it non-standardized.

- Andres



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