On Tue, Oct 09, 2018 at 12:31:19PM -0700, Andres Freund wrote: > Hi, > > On 2018-10-09 21:26:31 +0200, David Fetter wrote: > > On Tue, Oct 09, 2018 at 12:22:37PM -0700, Andres Freund wrote: > > > In-Reply-To: <20180928223240.kgwc4czzzekrp...@alap3.anarazel.de> > > > As discussed below (at [1]), I think we should remove $subject. I plan > > > to do so, unless somebody protests soon-ish. I thought it'd be better > > > to call attention to this in a new thread, to make sure people had a > > > chance to object. > > > > How much time would someone have to convert the timetravel piece of > > contrib/spi to use non-deprecated time types in order to make this > > window? > > "this window"? > > It's not entirely trivial, but also not that hard. It'd break existing > users however, as obviously their tables wouldn't dump / load or > pg_upgrade into a working state. > > But I think spi/timetravel is not something people can actually use / do > use much, the functionality is way too limited in practice, the > datatypes have been arcane for about as long as postgres existed, > etc. And the code isn't fit to serve as an example. > > In my opinion it has negative value at this point.
I suppose the proposals to add the standard-conformant temporal stuff would make this moot, but I don't recall a complete patch for that. Best, David. -- David Fetter <david(at)fetter(dot)org> http://fetter.org/ Phone: +1 415 235 3778 Remember to vote! Consider donating to Postgres: http://www.postgresql.org/about/donate
