Reg Me Please wrote:
> Il Thursday 08 November 2007 16:18:58 Tom Lane ha scritto:
> > It's either an int8 representing microseconds away from 2000-01-01
> > 00:00:00 UTC, or a float8 representing seconds away from the same
> > origin.
>
> Does this mean that negative numbers are for timestamps before y2k?
Yes.
> Why and when there is a choice between int8 and float8 representation?
At compilation time, by the --enable-integer-datetimes flag to
configure. You can find out whether the server you're currently
connected to uses integer datetimes with SHOW integer_datetimes.
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