At 8:35 PM +0100 16/7/12, Daniele Varrazzo wrote:
Even without this quirk, the problem of mapping timestamps to other
languages data types could be an even stronger design factor. I've
personally settled for 9999-12-31 which is python's datetime.max, maps
ok to doubles and won't create problems for almost 8000 years.
-- Daniele
Stephane Faroult ('The Art of SQL') says that dates so far in the
future can throw off query planners. He explains it nicely here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gu0WJJXgEFM
Interesting discussion, thanks.
Chris
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