Re: libpq binary data

Hello again,
after trying the PQftype function on the date row, I realized, that the type
is 701 which is a double. Treating the pointer as a double solved my problem,
now I get the right number of seconds. But it is still necessary to swap the
byte order from network to host with the function "ntohll" as shown below.
Hope this helps someone stucking in a similar problem.

Thilo

> Hello,
> I try to get the epoch value of a date via the
> PQexecParams(conn, "SELECT extract(epoch from date + time) as epoch, content
> FROM daten .....);
> In that database, the timestamp ist stored in the two fields date and time.
> I want to get this data in binary form. The
> PQfsize(res, 1);
> tells me, that the size of the returned data is 8 byte (in contrast to the
> standard size of epoch, which is meant to be 4 byte)
> I don't manage to get the epoch valule (seconds since 1970) from that
> returned value. After ntohll (which I wrote as a wrapper around ntohl for
> long int, see below) it is a very huge value (4743709917079142400) but it
> should be 1412179252 as I get it from the psql interface, when I type in
> the same command.
> What am I missing or doing wrong?
> Thanks for any help in advance
>
> Thilo
>
> unsigned long int ntohll(long int x)
> {
> if (ntohl(1) == 1)
> return x;
> else
> return (long int) (ntohl((int)((x << 32) >> 32))) << 32 | (long
> int)ntohl(((int)(x >> 32)));
> }