[postgis-users] XDR or NDR

[Paul Ramsey]

It is either. By default, AsBinary(geom) will return in the endianness 
of the machine it is running on. But you can force it to a particular 
endianness by specifying. AsBinary(geom,'XDR') or AsBinary(geom,'NDR').

Richard Taylor wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I am new to the list and to PostGIS. I am in the process of writing GeoTypes,
> a python package that implements the geometric types on top of Psycopg.
> 
> Does anyone know if the WKB format produced by PostGIS is in NDR or XDR
> format?
> 
> Many thanks.
> 
> Richard
> 
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