Re: [HACKERS] removing abstime, reltime, tinterval.c, spi/timetravel

On Tue, Oct 09, 2018 at 12:31:19PM -0700, Andres Freund wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On 2018-10-09 21:26:31 +0200, David Fetter wrote:
> > On Tue, Oct 09, 2018 at 12:22:37PM -0700, Andres Freund wrote:
> > > In-Reply-To: <20180928223240(dot)kgwc4czzzekrpsid(at)alap3(dot)anarazel(dot)de>
> > > As discussed below (at [1]), I think we should remove $subject. I plan
> > > to do so, unless somebody protests soon-ish. I thought it'd be better
> > > to call attention to this in a new thread, to make sure people had a
> > > chance to object.
> >
> > How much time would someone have to convert the timetravel piece of
> > contrib/spi to use non-deprecated time types in order to make this
> > window?
>
> "this window"?
>
> It's not entirely trivial, but also not that hard. It'd break existing
> users however, as obviously their tables wouldn't dump / load or
> pg_upgrade into a working state.
>
> But I think spi/timetravel is not something people can actually use / do
> use much, the functionality is way too limited in practice, the
> datatypes have been arcane for about as long as postgres existed,
> etc. And the code isn't fit to serve as an example.
>
> In my opinion it has negative value at this point.

I suppose the proposals to add the standard-conformant temporal stuff
would make this moot, but I don't recall a complete patch for that.

Best,
David.
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