From: Jeroen T. Vermeulen <jtv@xs4all.nl>
To: Eliot Simcoe <esimcoe@mac.com>
Cc: pgsql-interfaces@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: libpq binary transfer of the numeric data type
Date: Mon, 14 Jun 2004 21:24:41 +0200
Message-ID: <20040614192441.GH87999@xs4all.nl> (raw)
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On Mon, Jun 14, 2004 at 03:02:10PM -0400, Eliot Simcoe wrote:
> The platform I am developing on is big endian, so this shouldn't be an
> issue as far as I understand.
That's right. The data are all in network byte order, i.e. big-endian.
FWIW I'm doing the C++ frontend and I decided not to touch binary transfers
at all for now. There are other reasons as well, but lack of a clear and
stable description was one of them...
Jeroen
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