On Nov 14, 2016 12:53, "valeriof" <valerio_farruggio@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> Hi,
> I'm handling a TimestampTz value inside a plugin to stream WAL changes to a
> .NET client application. What I'm trying to do is to return all possible
> column changes as binary (don't like to have Postgres handle the conversion
> to string as I may need to have access to the bytes at the client level). In
> case of a TimestampTz, is it possible to return the 8-bytes long integer and
> then from the C# application convert the value to Ticks?
Npgsql supports the binary COPY protocol. Their implementation is here:
