| From: | Thomas Lockhart <lockhart(at)alumni(dot)caltech(dot)edu> |
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| To: | Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us> |
| Cc: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)hub(dot)org>, committers(at)postgreSQL(dot)org, Postgres Hackers List <hackers(at)postgreSQL(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: [HACKERS] Re: [COMMITTERS] pgsql/src/include/catalog (pg_type.h) |
| Date: | 2000-01-18 02:29:54 |
| Message-ID: | 3883D022.8386A215@alumni.caltech.edu |
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> We are going to internally move everything to the more standard ANSI
> names, right, or do we give preference to the older types?
Well, that could be up for discussion. The "internal" abstime/reltime
types are direct copies of Unix system time, which most systems
support at a fundamental level. Moving to timestamp/interval will
double the storage size of those fields, with no increase in
functionality afaik.
Peter brought up changing one field to timestamp; that would have the
benefit of being able to specify times past y2038.
- Thomas
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Thomas Lockhart lockhart(at)alumni(dot)caltech(dot)edu
South Pasadena, California
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