Mark Dilger <[email protected]> writes:
> On Mar 12, 2021, at 10:22 PM, Tom Lane <[email protected]> wrote:
>> Coping with both endiannesses might be painful.
> Not too bad if the bigint value is zero, as both the low and high 32bits will
> be zero, regardless of endianness. The question is whether that gives up too
> much in terms of what the test is trying to do. I'm not sure that it does,
> but if you'd rather solve this by upgrading perl, that's ok by me.
I don't mind updating the perl installations on prairiedog and gaur,
but Noah might have some difficulty with his AIX flotilla, as I believe
he's not sysadmin there.
You might think about using some symmetric-but-not-zero value,
0x01010101 or the like.
regards, tom lane
