Tom Lane wrote:
Obviously, if you are transporting the dump across platforms then that
may be an impossibility. In that case you use a text dump and accept
that you get an approximation.
That's something that I've been meaning to ask about, but you all
seemed so sure of yourself. What you are
Andrew Dunstan wrote:
Why the heck do the OLE DB specs care about the internals of the
client-server prototocol? It is documented fairly clearly that text is
the only portable way to transfer data.
Is it?
Perhaps we need to expand this sentence in the docs: Keep in mind that
binary
Shachar Shemesh wrote:
Even the original sentence does not describe the problem we're seeing
here. It does not mention cross platform incompatibility.
That's why I suggested it should be improved.
The COPY docs are probably more correct: The BINARY key word causes all
data to be
