Re: Add error-checking to timestamp_recv - Mailing list pgsql-patches

Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us> writes:
> I wasn't aware you could throw binary values into the timestamp fields
> like that.  I thought you needed to use a C string for the value.

This facility was added in 7.4 as part of the wire-protocol overhaul.
It's nothing directly to do with PREPARE; you could get the same result
with no prepared statement using PQexecParams.

            regards, tom lane