From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: H Hale <hhale21@yahoo.com>
Cc: pgsql-interfaces@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: [GENERAL] binary timestamp conversion
Date: Fri, 14 Oct 2005 17:04:35 -0400
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H Hale <hhale21@yahoo.com> writes:
> I save 1970-01-01 00:00:00 and read it back expecting
> the difference between postgres and unix epochs but
> get different results each time.
> (After conversion to host byte order).
Sounds to me like you're picking up garbage rather than the data you
should. Does your code to fetch the binary value produce correct
answers on an ordinary int8 column?
regards, tom lane
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