Re: timestamp refactor effort

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On Jan 13, 2008 12:13 AM, Warren Turkal <turkal(at)google(dot)com> wrote:
> On Jan 12, 2008 5:23 PM, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
> > Hmm, PackedTime seems like a fairly random name for the type --- there's
> > not anything particularly "packed" about it IMO.
> >
> > I'm a bit inclined to suggest just using the Timestamp typedef.
> > I guess though that there's some risk of confusion between values
> > that actually are "timestamp without time zone" and values that need
> > the same representation but aren't actually intended to represent a
> > specific point in time.
> >
> > Maybe "TimeOffset" or "TimeValue" or something like that?
>
> I do agree that Timestamp seems to express the same thing PackedTime
> does Should we rename Timestamp to TimeOffset?
>
> > Other than the name game, I think you're headed in the right direction.
>
>
> Thanks.
>
> I have a question. Are the low level representations of Timestamp and
> TimestampTZ the same?
>
> wt
>