Dave Cramer <pg@fastcrypt.com> writes:
> One thing though if the date is 64 bit instead of float, what does
> the binary output look like? Are they different ?
Quite, it's int64 instead of double ...
> If so this would seem to complicate things quite a bit.
Recent PG versions tell you which representation is in use at connection
startup, see the integer_datetimes parameter.
regards, tom lane