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Re: Integer datetimes

Zdenek Kotala <zdenek.kotala@sun.com>

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From: Zdenek Kotala <Zdenek.Kotala@Sun.COM>
To: Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>
Cc: Neil Conway <neilc@samurai.com>, pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org
Date: 2007-05-07T06:28:40Z
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Bruce Momjian wrote:
> Neil Conway wrote:
>> On Sat, 2007-05-05 at 20:52 -0400, Bruce Momjian wrote:
>>> What?  We don't pass float as a binary to clients.
>> Sure we do, if the client is sending or receiving data in binary format.
> 
> But in those cases, we assume the client and server have the same
> configuration, right?
> 

It is correct assumption, but I did not find it in documentation and if 
you look on floating data type description there is mention about non 
IEEE 754 platform, but nothing about this assumption.

I think IEEE 754 compliance must be required on all platforms.


		Zdenek