From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: guoping.zhang@nec.com.au
Cc: pgsql-performance@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: Are there any performance penalty for opposite edian platform combinations....
Date: Tue, 01 Aug 2006 08:10:34 -0400
Message-ID: <857.1154434234@sss.pgh.pa.us> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <001401c6b527$85406620$74304c93@eddy>
References: <001401c6b527$85406620$74304c93@eddy>
"Guoping Zhang" <guoping.zhang@nec.com.au> writes:
> In fact, it is a general question that "Is it a good practice we shall avoid
> to run application server and database server on the platform with opposite
> edian? or it simply doesn't matter"?
Our network protocol uses big-endian consistently, so there will be some
tiny hit for little-endian machines, independently of what's on the
other end of the wire. I can't imagine you could measure the difference
though.
regards, tom lane
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