On Mon, 11 Nov 2019 at 12:04, Alvaro Herrera <alvhe...@2ndquadrant.com> wrote:
> On 2019-Nov-11, Dave Cramer wrote: > > > Previously someone mentioned that we need to confirm whether the two > > servers are compatible for binary or not. > > > > Checking to make sure the two servers have the same endianness is > obvious. > > Sizeof int, long, float, double, timestamp (float/int) at a minimum. > > > > this could be done in libpqrcv_startstreaming. The question I have > > remaining is do we fall back to text mode if needed or simply fail ? > > I think it makes more sense to have it fail. If the user wants to retry > in text mode, they can do that easily enough; but if we make it > fall-back automatically and they set up the received wrongly by mistake, > they would pay the performance penalty without noticing. > > Alvaro, thanks, after sending this I pretty much came to the same conclusion. Dave > >
