| From: | Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us> |
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| To: | Thomas Lockhart <lockhart(at)alumni(dot)caltech(dot)edu> |
| Cc: | Stephen Birch <sbirch(at)ironmountainsystems(dot)com>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgreSQL(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: [HACKERS] Re: date/time type changes |
| Date: | 2000-01-04 19:52:25 |
| Message-ID: | 200001041952.OAA21002@candle.pha.pa.us |
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> > Could you outline the proposed changes? I am currently using datetime
> > and want to make sure my code doesn't break.
> > > > Thomas, are you planning on unifying the date/time types for 7.0?
>
> The datetime type will become "timestamp" and the timespan type will
> become "interval". Both "datetime" and "timespan" will become aliases
> for timestamp and interval, respectively, and code *should* work
> without having to be changed.
Wouldn't it make more sense to rename timestamp to datetime because
datetime is the ANSI name? Just asking.
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