Re: Timestamp Question - Mailing list pgsql-jdbc

From Oliver Jowett
Subject Re: Timestamp Question
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Msg-id 40F15409.5030102@opencloud.com
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In response to Re: Timestamp Question  (Dave Cramer <pg@fastcrypt.com>)
List pgsql-jdbc
Dave Cramer wrote:
> the real question is where do you get microsecond values from in java,
> and are they real?

You get them out of a database, or you compute them, or the user enters
them, or you get them from another system. And so on. Dealing with
sub-millisecond precision is a perfectly reasonable thing to be doing.
java.sql.Timestamp already supports this.

> In other words, if you are getting system time in
> microseconds ( if that's even possible ) it will take you a few more
> microseconds to insert it.

What does system time have to do with this?

-O

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