Re: [Patch] Binary Transfer v12

Mikko Tiihonen wrote:
>> Did you test it with both little-endian and big-endian servers?
>> With 32-bit and 64-bit servers?
>
> I have only tested with 64bit amd64 servers.
>
[...]
>
> But now you got me wondering...
>
> The protocol messages itself are well defined, but I cannot find any
> documentation about the data value contents because there is no official
> documentation. I had to just guess how the values are stored. Based on the data
> type byte sizes in database, for example look here:
> http://developer.postgresql.org/pgdocs/postgres/datatype-datetime.html

Unfortunately I don't know the implementation details.
Maybe binary values come as they are on disk, see the note in the COPY
documentation:
http://developer.postgresql.org/pgdocs/postgres/sql-copy.html

I have a (big-endian) AIX machine where I could test it as soon as the
patch is in. Is there a convenient test program?

Yours,
Laurenz Albe