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From: Dominique Devienne <[email protected]>
To: Daniel Verite <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected]
Subject: Re: About the stability of COPY BINARY data
Date: Thu, 7 Nov 2024 18:55:03 +0100
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On Thu, Nov 7, 2024 at 6:39 PM Daniel Verite <[email protected]> wrote:
>         Dominique Devienne wrote:
> > Also, does the code for per-type _send() and _recv() functions
> > really change across versions of PostgreSQL? How common are
> > instances of such changes across versions? Any examples of such
> > backward-incompatible changes, in the past?
>
> For the timestamp types, I think these functions were
> sending/expecting float8 (before version 7.3), and then float8 or
> int64 depending on the server configuration up until 9.6, and since
> then int64 only.
> The same for the "time" field of the interval type.
> There is still an "integer_datetimes" GUC reflecting this.

Thanks. So it did happen in a distant past.
Anything below 14 is of no concern to me though.
So again, it does sound like changes are unlikely.

And I haven't seen anything not network-byte-order,
as far architecture is concerned.

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