On 10/17/2010 04:40 PM, Tom Lane wrote:
At the earliest, we could consider dropping them when we drop support
for in-place upgrade from 8.3 --- not only direct upgrade, but through
multiple pg_upgrade steps. That's assuming that we think there are
no users who are depending on float timestamps for functionality (they
have a wider range than int timestamps don't they?).
Yes, they do.
Maybe we need to look at providing a bigtimestamp type or similar at
some stage. Or maybe the demand for it would be so low it should be an
add-on module.
cheers
andrew
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