[redland-dev] Digests, Endianness and Bit Order

[Dave Beckett]

On Mon, 25 Apr 2005 10:56:17 +0200, Simon Cross <simon at sanbi.ac.za> wrote:

> Hi Morten,
> 
> On Sun, 2005-04-24 at 12:00 +0200, Morten Frederiksen wrote:
> > However, the "bug" seems to imply that moving database content between 
> > architectures was a goal, which it wasn't. Still, it's a good thing that it 
> > seems to be possible, but there might be more issues concerning character 
> > sets etc. in the database engine, which is why I didn't see the need.
> 
> Just to clarify, I'm not moving the database content between
> architectures.  I'm accessing a database on an x86 server from a PPC
> client machine.

Yeah, that's a legitimate use so this is a bug - the content should
be retrievable if you change your access from one system to another
with different endianness/word length.

Dave