Re: [HACKERS] TODO list

From: Thomas Lockhart <lockhart(at)alumni(dot)caltech(dot)edu>
To: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>
Cc: hackers(at)postgreSQL(dot)org
Subject: Re: [HACKERS] TODO list
Date: 2000-01-17 08:02:02
Message-ID: 3882CC7A.25F9C11F@alumni.caltech.edu
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> * Allow array on int8[]
> Done. (Credit to Thomas, thought, he just forgot to apply the patch.)

Thanks. btw, didn't forget, but wanted confirmation that it worked
(which I got a day or two later).

> * Make Absolutetime/Relativetime int4 because time_t can be int8 on some
> ports
> Does this mean the abstime/reltime types or all of them? I thought the
> former were deprecated anyway.

abstime should probably be considered deprecated as a user type, but
it is still used extensively internally and within the tuple
structure. I'd be reluctant to wholesale replace it with
timestamp/datetime, since that will take 8 bytes per value rather than
4.

- Thomas

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Thomas Lockhart lockhart(at)alumni(dot)caltech(dot)edu
South Pasadena, California

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