Re: Add error-checking to timestamp_recv

Tom Lane wrote:
> Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us> writes:
> > I wasn't aware you could throw binary values into the timestamp fields
> > like that.  I thought you needed to use a C string for the value.
>
> This facility was added in 7.4 as part of the wire-protocol overhaul.
> It's nothing directly to do with PREPARE; you could get the same result
> with no prepared statement using PQexecParams.

Ah, no wonder I had not seen that before.  So, I guess the issue is how
much error checking do we want to have for these binary values.  I was a
little disturbed to hear he could insert data he couldn't later view.
How many datatype have this issue?

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