Re: timestamp?

Igor Roboul <igor(at)raduga(dot)dyndns(dot)org> writes:
> Let assume that we have relation R01(id integer,ts timestamp)
> Now I know that if I use PQgetvalue() for ts value, I'll get char*
> to nullterminated string. How can I get time_t value for ts in
> portable way (without parsing returned string)?

If you want to produce a time_t painlessly, the simplest way is not
to SELECT the raw timestamp, but rather date_part('epoch', timestamp).
This gives you back an integer number of seconds per Unix conventions,
which you just use atoi() on. For example:

regression=# select date_part('epoch', now());
date_part
-----------
972673187
(1 row)

regards, tom lane