Kelly Burkhart <kelly.burkhart@gmail.com> writes:
> On Mon, Feb 28, 2011 at 8:42 AM, Merlin Moncure <mmoncure@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Actually, this has always been a compile time option on the server as
>> far as i remember and there is protocol support for it -- libpq tells
>> you how it has been set...you've always had to deal with this
> I don't see any libpq calls that can, at run-time, tell you things
> like what format the timestamp is and what endian-ness the server is.
> Is there something I'm missing?
The timestamp format can be determined by querying PQparameterStatus
for the value of "integer_datetimes". Server endianness is irrelevant
because values are always sent big-endian.
regards, tom lane
