Apparently HPUX runs the IA64 in big-endian mode.

cb792343 · Tom Lane · 3475fd11 · cb792343
Commit cb792343 authored Sep 02, 2004 by Tom Lane
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--- a/src/include/port/hpux.h
+++ b/src/include/port/hpux.h
@@ -16,8 +16,9 @@

 #elif defined(__ia64)

+/* HPUX runs IA64 in big-endian mode */
 #ifndef			BYTE_ORDER
-#define			BYTE_ORDER		LITTLE_ENDIAN
+#define			BYTE_ORDER		BIG_ENDIAN
 #endif

 #else