[postgis-users] AsBinary not honouring the endianess parameter

[Richard Taylor]

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David

Many thanks. 

I have worked around it by dynamically supporting both endiannesses.

BTW, I owe you thanks also because I have borrowed quite a lot from the 
approach you have taken in wkb4j in the python parser that I am writing.

Regards

Richard

On Tuesday 30 September 2003 6:07 pm, david.garnier at etudier-online.com wrote:
> Richard,
>
>
> The answer is: Yes. See my website (http://wkb4j.sourceforge.net/), third
> news item.
>
> Long story short, it is a bug, and it is fixed in the CVS version of
> PostGIS. For the current version, I provided a patch.
>
> Best Regards,
> David Garnier
>
> Quoting Richard Taylor <r.taylor at bcs.org.uk>:
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> > Hi
> >
> > Are there any know issues with AsBinary() sometimes not honouring the
> > endianess parameter?
> >
> > I am using a binary cursor in the following way:
> >
> > DECLARE zot BINARY CURSOR FOR SELECT
> > AsBinary(p1,'XDR'),AsBinary(p2,'XDR') FROM geom_table FOR READ ONLY
> > FETCH ALL FROM zot
> >
> > About 50% of the time the result is in XDR and 50% in NDR. I shall
> > probably write my parser to deal with both versions but it does seam
> > strange.
> >
> > Richard
> >
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