On Mon, Feb 28, 2011 at 8:42 AM, Merlin Moncure <mmoncure@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Sun, Feb 27, 2011 at 7:39 PM, Craig Ringer >> AFAIK, the `timestamp' type moved from a floating-point to an integer >> representation internally, which would've affected the binary protocol >> representation. That was even a compile-time config option, so it could be >> different between two different Pg installs with the same version. > > Actually, this has always been a compile time option on the server as > far as i remember and there is protocol support for it -- libpq tells > you how it has been set...you've always had to deal with this I don't see any libpq calls that can, at run-time, tell you things like what format the timestamp is and what endian-ness the server is. Is there something I'm missing? The only thing I could figure out is to do something like 'select 123::int4' or select a known date and determine the nature of the server from what you get back. -K -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general
