Re: What is the binary format for timestamps?

Tom Lane wrote:

>Marvin Bellamy <marvin.bellamy@innovision.com> writes:
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>>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.
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>Are you using integer datetimes?  It should be either a float8 measured
>in seconds, or an int8 measured in microseconds since the epoch.
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>            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?

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Marvin Keith Bellamy
Software Engineer
Innovision Corporation
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