| From: | Bruno Wolff III <bruno(at)wolff(dot)to> |
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| To: | ljb <ljb220(at)mindspring(dot)com> |
| Cc: | pgsql-interfaces(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: What is the binary format for timestamps? |
| Date: | 2005-04-08 14:07:52 |
| Message-ID: | 20050408140752.GB15927@wolff.to |
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On Fri, Apr 08, 2005 at 01:02:07 +0000,
ljb <ljb220(at)mindspring(dot)com> wrote:
>
> A timestamp is returned as an 8-byte big-endian double precision number of
> seconds since POSTGRES_EPOCH_DATE.
> A time is returned as an 8-byte big-endian double precision number of
> seconds since midnight.
> POSTGRES_EPOCH_DATE is January 1, 2000 (2000-01-01).
I believe building with --enable-integer-datetimes will change this.
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