On Tue, Jun 20, 2006 at 09:12:50PM -0700, Kevin Jenkins wrote: > I call PQexecParams with the last parameter as 1 to return binary > data. I then get this data with: > > fileLengthPtr = PQgetvalue(result, rowIndex, fileLengthColumnIndex); > memcpy(&fileLength, fileLengthPtr, sizeof(fileLength)); > > The value being returned is of type integer. > > It should have the value 7237 in binary. > It actually has the value: > fileLengthPtr[0] 0 char > fileLengthPtr[1] 0 char > fileLengthPtr[2] 28 '?' char > fileLengthPtr[3] 69 'E' char > > Which is not 7237, it's: > fileLength 1159462912 int > > Why? 7237 decimal = 1c45 hex 28 decimal = 1c hex 69 decimal = 45 hex The data looks correct once you recognize that it's in network byte order (big endian). You'll need to convert it to host byte order. -- Michael Fuhr
