From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: Marvin Bellamy <marvin.bellamy@innovision.com>
Cc: pgsql-interfaces@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: What is the binary format for timestamps?
Date: Fri, 08 Apr 2005 10:46:02 -0400
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Marvin Bellamy <marvin.bellamy@innovision.com> writes:
> I've been treating the timestamp as an integer, not a double. What's a
> good way to deal with double/float byte ordering when reading/writing
> data from Windows applications?
Pretend it's an integer for long enough to byte-swap it the same way as
you'd do for an integer of the same size. (IIRC this is exactly how the
backend does it, too.)
regards, tom lane
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