On Tue, 4 Jun 2019 at 18:08, Andres Freund <and...@anarazel.de> wrote:
> 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. > Additionally there are a number of drivers that already know how to handle our binary types. I don't really think there's a win here. I also want to keep the changes small . Dave
