Re: what is the date format in binary query results - Mailing list pgsql-general

This brings up a second question.  How should I do byte order
conversion for 8 byte ints?  I can't use hton ntoh routines as they
max out at 32 bits.  Is there a better way?  Also, are floating point
numbers guaranteed uniform?

If any one knows a a clean code example of binary binding of
parameters and binary extraction of results for all major types in C
against lippq that would be a very useful thing to have in the
standard docs.

- samantha

On Nov 8, 2007, at 7:18 AM, Tom Lane wrote:

> Samantha Atkins <sjatkins@mac.com> writes:
>> What can I expect for a date format from a PGresult containing binary
>> results?  Specifically the Oid type is TIMESTAMPTZOID.
>
> It's either an int8 representing microseconds away from 2000-01-01
> 00:00:00 UTC, or a float8 representing seconds away from the same
> origin.
>
>             regards, tom lane

- samantha

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