Jeff Davis wrote:
> On Tue, 2008-04-08 at 15:22 -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
>> Well, for starters, using binary format. It is undeniable that that
>> creates more portability risks (cross-architecture and cross-PG-version
>> issues) than text format. Not everyone wants to take those risks for
>> benefits that may not be meaningful for their apps.
>
> What are the cross-architecture risks involved?
>
> Regards,
> Jeff Davis
>
>
>>> What are the cross-architecture risks involved?
We didn't run into any issues here. close attention was paid to byte
ordering, the rest was handled by libpq's cross-platform handling.
cross-PG-version is a different story. the patch already uses server
version to toggle (like use int4 for money pre-8.3). If we make this a
separate library, it would be easy to plug in a newer or older one.
Merlin had some ideas here ... Merlin?
Andrew
