Re: Date/Time atributes and binary cursors

Thanks.

Do Postgres/libpq have functions for converting between Unix/Postgres date/time representations or do i have to do it by hand?

Thanks again.

> A date is returned as a 4-byte big-endian integer representing the number
> of days since POSTGRES_EPOCH_DATE.
> A timestamp is returned as an 8-byte big-endian double precision number of
> seconds since POSTGRES_EPOCH_DATE.
> A time is returned as an 8-byte big-endian double precision number of
> seconds since midnight.
> POSTGRES_EPOCH_DATE is January 1, 2000 (2000-01-01).
>
> Note that binary cursor results are in network data order (big-endian)
> starting with PostgreSQL-7.4 (versus native server order pre-7.4). This
> means they need to be byte-swapped if your client runs on an Intel-type
> little-endian system.
>

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