Re: 8.3: timestamp subtraction

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Havasvölgyi Ottó <havasvolgyi(dot)otto(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com>, Christophe <xof(at)thebuild(dot)com>, Pg - General <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: 8.3: timestamp subtraction
Date: 2009-05-23 22:41:20
Message-ID: 13504.1243118480@sss.pgh.pa.us
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=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Havasv=F6lgyi_Ott=F3?= <havasvolgyi(dot)otto(at)gmail(dot)com> writes:
> Thanks, It's off in both 8.2 and 8.3.

As was already stated, that depends on which build you're using.
(And no, "the Win32 distribution on the PgSql site" is not a unique
description, not even for a single PG version.)

> What will be the default in 8.4?

The same comment will apply to 8.4. There is a general trend away from
floating point timestamps, but there will probably be some builds
continuing to use them for a long time to come, because of compatibility
considerations.

regards, tom lane

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