Re: Timestamp with libpq

> > Is there any reason to use a binary transfer? 
> 
> If I use textual transfer I'm losing precision. E.g. for timestamps the
> returned string from my table is "1955-06-08 00:00:00". Thus I'm
> restricted to timestamps with a granularity of 1 second.

I doubt this. It might be true for double storage but not for 8 byte integers,
well that is in the database of course. But I see no reason whatsoever that the
data is truncated by libpq. 

> > about using ecpg instead of libpq?
> 
> The generic database interface I'm writing is part of a basic library
> used in our project. The interface serves as an abstraction for
> accessing different database servers (Postgres, MSSQL, ...). I'm
> currently working on the postgres implementation of the interface. 
> As far as I've seen using ecpg means to hardcode SQL statements which of
> course can't be done in a generic library.

No, this is not true. You can execute arbitrary statements in ecpg as well.

Michael
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