Re: [HACKERS] Re: COPY BINARY file format proposal

[Philip Warner]

At 01:27 8/12/00 -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
>Recovering the data on a machine
>of different endianness is a project for future data archeologists.

It's frightening to think that in 1000 years time people will be deducing
things about our society from the way we stored data.


>
>Tell you the truth, I don't believe in file-format version numbers at
>all...
>(RFC 2083, esp section 12.13) --- the versioning philosophy described
>there is largely yours truly's.

Seems to be a much better approach; (non)critical chunks & chunk types are
much more portable.


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