"Guoping Zhang" <guoping.zhang@xxxxxxxxxx> writes: > In fact, it is a general question that "Is it a good practice we shall avoid > to run application server and database server on the platform with opposite > edian? or it simply doesn't matter"? Our network protocol uses big-endian consistently, so there will be some tiny hit for little-endian machines, independently of what's on the other end of the wire. I can't imagine you could measure the difference though. regards, tom lane