Re: building a binary-portable database

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Martijn van Oosterhout <kleptog(at)svana(dot)org>
Cc: Alexy Khrabrov <deliverable(at)gmail(dot)com>, Alban Hertroys <dalroi(at)solfertje(dot)student(dot)utwente(dot)nl>, John R Pierce <pierce(at)hogranch(dot)com>, pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: building a binary-portable database
Date: 2009-08-02 16:44:55
Message-ID: 765.1249231495@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Martijn van Oosterhout <kleptog(at)svana(dot)org> writes:
> On Sun, Aug 02, 2009 at 12:02:41PM -0400, Alexy Khrabrov wrote:
>> How about portability between systems with the same endianness and
>> bitness, e.g. Intel 64-bit ones?

> There's nothing to stop you trying, but there's been no effort in
> making it work.

Exactly. It might work, but we don't promise it or test for it.
If it breaks you get to keep both pieces.

regards, tom lane

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