> > One addition I would personally like to see (it comes up in my apps > > code) is the ability to detect wheather the server is big endian or > > little endian. When using binary cursors this is necessary in order to > > read int data. > > Actually, my hope is to eliminate that business entirely by > standardizing the on-the-wire representation for binary data; note the > reference to send/receive routines in the original message. For integer > data this is simple enough: network byte order will be it. I'm not sure > yet what to do about float data.
Is that something that the 'XDR' spec deals with? (Thinking back to 3rd year networking unit)... Chris ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 5: Have you checked our extensive FAQ? http://www.postgresql.org/docs/faqs/FAQ.html
