>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.
INTEL: Intel Linux-ELF system(little endian)
SUN: Sun Sparc/SunOS 4.1.4(big endian)
PPC: MkLinux-PPC (big endian)
INTEL:~$ psql -h SUN template1
Welcome to the POSTGRESQL interactive sql monitor:
Please read the file COPYRIGHT for copyright terms of POSTGRESQL
type \? for help on slash commands
type \q to quit
type \g or terminate with semicolon to execute query
You are currently connected to the database: template1
template1=> select * from pg_user;
<--- psql stucks here
I tried other combinations.
client(psql) server result
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INTEL PPC NG
INTEL SUN NG
PPC INTEL NG
PPC SUN OK
SUN PPC OK
Note that INTEL can talk to 6.0 servers while SUN and PPC can't.
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Tatsuo Ishii
t-ishii@sra.co.jp
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