[Roadster] Converting TIGER data to a MySQL database

[Barry Gould]

I googled for
myisam portability

and found:

http://mysqld.active-venture.com/MyISAM.html
>The following is new in MyISAM (for MySQL 3.23):
>All data is stored with the low byte first. This makes the data 
>machine and OS independent. The only requirement for binary 
>portability is that the machine uses two's-complement signed 
>integers (as every machine for the last 20 years has) and IEEE 
>floating-point format (also totally dominant among mainstream 
>machines). The only area of machines that may not support binary 
>compatibility are embedded systems (because they sometimes have 
>peculiar processors).


Barry

At 01:37 PM 2/13/2006, you wrote:
> > MyISAM tables ARE portable, e.g. from MAC to PC.
> >
> > InnoDB tables are not.
>
>Thanks.  I guess that means they are generally 64-bit and big endian
>safe?  Do you know about other architectures?  (Roadster does not use
>InnoDB tables.)
>
>I was trying to find something on the MySQL site that had this info, but
>I failed.
>--
>Jeff
>JID: jeff at jgarrett.org
>