On Mon, Jul 25, 2005 at 10:54:42 +0200, Daniel Drotos <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > I have a string containing hexa dump of an 4 bytes integer, like > '6AF4805C'. Is it possible to convert it somehow to date type in > plpgsql (v8.0.0-rc1)? Doc says that date is represented as 4 bytes > internaly. > > How can I get internal representation of a date type field? So I would > be able to produce hexa dump of it like above...
area=> select x'6AF4805C'::integer::abstime; abstime ------------------------ 2026-11-11 08:49:00-06 (1 row) It looks like the your number probably isn't an offset in seconds from January 1 1970. But with more knowledge about what it is, you should be able to turn it into a date or timestamp. ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 6: explain analyze is your friend