Re: PGparam timestamp question

From: Michael Meskes <meskes(at)postgresql(dot)org>
To: Andrew Chernow <ac(at)esilo(dot)com>
Cc: Robert Treat <xzilla(at)users(dot)sourceforge(dot)net>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org, Merlin Moncure <mmoncure(at)gmail(dot)com>
Subject: Re: PGparam timestamp question
Date: 2007-12-10 08:08:07
Message-ID: 20071210080807.GA10368@feivel.credativ.de
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On Sun, Dec 09, 2007 at 11:54:25AM -0500, Andrew Chernow wrote:
> That explains why my libpq code was getting 3AM for "without time zone"
> values. I am using code from src/interfaces/ecpg/pgtypeslib/timestamp.c
> timestamp2tm(). That uses localtime() after converting the timestamp to an
> epoch value. I changed this code so that it calls gmtime() for
> TIMESTAMPOID and localtime() for TIMESTAMPTZOID. Now it works perfectly :)

Does this mean pgtypeslib is buggy? This code has been taken from the
backend ages ago, so some changes might have occured that I'm not aware
of. Or was the code incorrectly used?

Michael
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