From: 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 09:32:38 -0500
Message-ID: <42569606.8030503@innovision.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <23104.1112917952@sss.pgh.pa.us>
References: <4255A00F.1010409@innovision.com>
<23104.1112917952@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Tom Lane wrote:
>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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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?
--
Marvin Keith Bellamy
Software Engineer
Innovision Corporation
913.438.3200
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