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Re: Datafiles binary portable?



On Tue, Nov 28, 2006 at 11:00:35AM -0500, Stephen Harris wrote:
> This is probably a silly question, but are the database files binary portable?
> eg could I take datafiles from a Sparc and copy them to an Intel machine,
> or would the endianness differences kill me?

No.

It may not even be compatable across the same platform with different
compilers and/or configure flags.

Have a nice day,
-- 
Martijn van Oosterhout   <kleptog(at)svana(dot)org>   http://svana.org/kleptog/
> From each according to his ability. To each according to his ability to litigate.

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