returnString commented on pull request #10005:
URL: https://github.com/apache/arrow/pull/10005#issuecomment-819101432


   
   > > One thing to think about is are there SQL types that correspond to 
timestamp seconds/micros.
   > 
   > Yes, this is a hole in my mind as the Arrow types are more expressive than 
standard SQL types. Like there is no way now to create a CSV backed table in 
datafusion and say you want millisecond based timestamps.
   
   Postgres _sort of_ has a notion of explicit timestamp precision for its 
types that we could borrow, but it's done using the number of decimal places 
for fractional seconds rather than unit granularity. In practice though, I 
don't think this gets used much anyways 🤷‍♂️


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