A discussion thread from comp.lang.java about the magic number
(first four bytes) of Java class files.

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And why you may need to repeat AT TIME ZONE 'UTC' twice.





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* AT TIME ZONE 'UTC' converts the data type from timestamptz to timestamp (example).
* Now you are inadvertently using the timestamp without time zone (aka timestamp) data type…

The technical musings of Iain Cambridge.

I built my own binary serializer and a custom lang. heres how I did it