Re: internal format of timstamp? - Mailing list pgsql-sql

From Brent Dombrowski
Subject Re: internal format of timstamp?
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Msg-id 4DA72F25-6139-41B4-AE30-93072A7B337C@gmail.com
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In response to internal format of timstamp?  (Lars Gustafsson <gumse@mac.com>)
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On Dec 29, 2011, at 7:08 AM, Lars Gustafsson wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I am trying to recover a lot of deleted rows from a database  ( pg 8.2.3 ) , not my database, I promise…..
>
> When using the tool pgfsck I get good results, but timestamp is not implemented.
>
> When trying to export as int8  i get   fx.  4735129360236469258   representing   december 29, 2011, 16:30
>
> But how should I do the conversion from the numeric value to the actual timestamp ?
>
> Regards,
> Lars.
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I'm not sure what the internal timestamp representation is, but I thought it went down to fractions of a second.

http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.2/interactive/datatype-datetime.html#DATATYPE-DATETIME-INTERNALS

Brent.



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