Re: funkiness with '1999-12-31 19:00:00-05'::timestamp with time zone

Josh Kupershmidt <schmiddy@gmail.com> writes:
> On Fri, Sep 3, 2010 at 4:01 PM, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
>> Interesting. �I can't imagine how you could have produced these with
>> plain COPY, since that would go through timestamptzin. �Was it by any
>> chance a binary COPY? �If so I could believe that funny timestamps could
>> get in. �Maybe some confusion over endianness of the binary data, for
>> instance.

> Exactly, the code is using COPY ... TO STDOUT WITH BINARY along with
> COPY ... FROM STDIN WITH BINARY.

OK; what you need to look at is how the client code is preparing the
timestamp values.  What they should be is floats representing seconds
since 2000-01-01 00:00 GMT, sent in bigendian byte order.

            regards, tom lane