"John D. Burger" <john@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > Hmm, except if the timestamp "anchor" is installation-specific, then > binary exchange of timestamps is complicated. Yeah, that would be a problem. > What does libpq do now > with timetamps, if the client requests data in binary form? How does > the client know whether it's getting floats or integers? You have to look at the integer_datetimes parameter (which is available to the client automatically in recent versions, though whether you can get at it easily depends on your client library...) regards, tom lane
