On Fri, 10 Jun 2016 15:38:44 -0400 Joseph Brennan wrote: > <rwmailli...@googlemail.com> wrote: > > > The main database file is binary anyway. > > > Look out for big-endian and little-endian, too. That affects > databases. This bit us once when we copied a berkeley db from solaris > to linux.
That may have changed; they are supposed to be compatible: http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/database/berkeleydb/db-faq-095848.html It's just a bit less efficient. > Endian-ness is based on the cpu hardware, but apparently > Macs and most hardware used for Linux (like Intel) are both > little-endian-- so it is probably not the answer in this case. IIRC older OS X macs used big-endian powerpc processors.
