On Tue, Jun 20, 2006 at 09:12:50PM -0700, Kevin Jenkins wrote:
> I call PQexecParams with the last parameter as 1 to return binary 
> data.  I then get this data with:
> 
> fileLengthPtr = PQgetvalue(result, rowIndex, fileLengthColumnIndex);
> memcpy(&fileLength, fileLengthPtr, sizeof(fileLength));
> 
> The value being returned is of type integer.
> 
> It should have the value 7237 in binary.
> It actually has the value:
> fileLengthPtr[0]      0       char
> fileLengthPtr[1]      0       char
> fileLengthPtr[2]      28 '?'  char
> fileLengthPtr[3]      69 'E'  char
> 
> Which is not 7237, it's:
> fileLength    1159462912      int
> 
> Why?

7237 decimal = 1c45 hex
28 decimal = 1c hex
69 decimal = 45 hex

The data looks correct once you recognize that it's in network byte
order (big endian).  You'll need to convert it to host byte order.

-- 
Michael Fuhr

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