> I'd be interested to see how you do that, considering that abstime
> can't store fractional seconds. timenow() is even more obsolete than
> timeofday() --- AFAICS it's not documented at all, anywhere. The whole
> abstime datatype is obsolete, actually, and will have to go away
> sometime before 2038.
>
If the current implementation of timenow() is truly obsolete, would it
be verboten to change its return type? We could rewrite the function
to return timestamp, for example.
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BJ