On Feb 11, 2008 4:28 PM, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
> "Dave Page" <dpage@pgadmin.org> writes:
> > If the endianess isn't corrected for the non-native platform at build
> > time, I've seen initdb leave a cluster with a completely broken
> > pg_rewrite (iirc).
>
> Hmm, but is pg_rewrite really the most obvious symptom? In 8.3 I would
> expect massive breakage all over, because of the varvarlena stuff's
> sensitivity to endianness.
It was what we found first upon investigating why my first attempts at
building a universal binary failed. A quick test with pgAdmin threw an
odd error following a select from a view. We eventually realised that
the query trees in ev_action were all blank if memory serves. Greg
might remember more...
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