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: Thu, 07 Apr 2005 19:52:32 -0400
Message-ID: <23104.1112917952@sss.pgh.pa.us> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4255A00F.1010409@innovision.com>
References: <4255A00F.1010409@innovision.com>
Marvin Bellamy <marvin.bellamy@innovision.com> writes:
> I'm trying to read/write timestamps as binary data, but I'm getting
> garbage. It looks like there are 8 bytes of timestamp data (if I read
> the headers correctly), which I had assumed was the time in millis from
> the PostgreSQL epoch, but my values are way off.
Are you using integer datetimes? It should be either a float8 measured
in seconds, or an int8 measured in microseconds since the epoch.
regards, tom lane
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