Re: Binary support for pgoutput plugin

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.

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