Shachar Shemesh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I've received a bug report on the OLE DB list, which I suspect is > actually a server bug. The correspondence so far is listed further on, > but, in a nutshell, user runs an OLE DB client on windows (OLE DB uses > the binary interface), and server version 8.1.9 on Windows, and all is > fine. When the server is switched to 8.1.8 on Debian Etch on ARM9, > float8 type is not received properly by OLE DB.
Perhaps OLE is trying to use binary instead of text transmission of data? It's not a server bug if ARM has a different FP format than the client hardware; it's the client's responsibility to either use text format or be prepared to cope with whatever the binary format is. regards, tom lane ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 5: don't forget to increase your free space map settings