Re: Datetime

On Aug 3, 2004, at 8:50 PM, Achilleus Mantzios wrote:

> O kyrios Michael Glaesemann egrapse stis Aug 3, 2004 :
>>
>> I believe this is incorrect. I believe PostgreSQL uses its own
>
> Do you suggest postgresql has any other means of getting
> time except the time(2) syscall??
>
>> timestamp datatype internally (which is, indeed, not as text in an
>> easy-to-read form). On my machine (running cvs-head),

No. I'm just saying that PostgreSQL does not represent or store 
timestamps as epoch timestamps internally. I don't know for sure how 
PostgreSQL gets the current timestamp, and I wouldn't be surprised if 
it was via the time(2) syscall.

Michael Glaesemann
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