Re: forcing returned values to be binary - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Tom Lane
Subject Re: forcing returned values to be binary
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Msg-id 16966.1132077917@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to Re: forcing returned values to be binary  (Dave Cramer <pg@fastcrypt.com>)
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Dave Cramer <pg@fastcrypt.com> writes:
> One thing though if the date is 64 bit instead of float, what does  
> the binary output look like? Are they different ?

Quite, it's int64 instead of double ...

> If so this would seem to complicate things quite a bit.

Recent PG versions tell you which representation is in use at connection
startup, see the integer_datetimes parameter.
        regards, tom lane


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