Thread: C program Postgres 6.3 and date

Hello,
first thing of note is that if it is possible
I prefer to receive email with the solution.
I recently upgraded postgres from version ~6 to 6.3.  Unfortunately,
where before I had everything passed back as text strings now things are

being passed back in their binary form.

My question is
How is the postgres date type stored in C?Is it an integer in seconds from a specific date?How would I convert it to a
textstring of the form 05-21-1998?(When I print it as an integer I get 841823536)Before I received that text string as
aresult of the PQgetvalue now
 
I am getting the binary form and I can't find a reference on how to
convert
back.

Thanks        Roberto Taglioretti



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> I recently upgraded postgres from version ~6 to 6.3.  Unfortunately,
> where before I had everything passed back as text strings now things 
> are being passed back in their binary form.

(I'm not sure if you already got a response)

You should be seeing text, not binary data. Although v6.3 shouldn't
have any particular problem with this, I would suggest upgrading to
v6.4.2 asap and make sure that any apps you have are using the new
libraries.

Good luck.
                       - Tom

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