Re: int64/double for time/timestamp

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Teodor Sigaev <teodor(at)sigaev(dot)ru>
Cc: Pgsql Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: int64/double for time/timestamp
Date: 2005-02-25 15:28:27
Message-ID: 5239.1109345307@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Teodor Sigaev <teodor(at)sigaev(dot)ru> writes:
>> We'll obviously want to fix this going forward for efficiency reasons,
>> but it's an initdb-forcer because it'll change the on-disk
>> representation of time columns. So we can't change it in 8.0 or before.

> So, will we do it? I can do, but I don't know: Is there a place which
> contains storage version (except file PG_VERSION)?

catversion.h would need to be advanced for such a change. We haven't
got anything finer-grained than that.

regards, tom lane

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