Peter Eisentraut <pete...@gmx.net> writes: > On mån, 2012-04-23 at 22:03 -0400, Robert Haas wrote: >> Perhaps, but nobody's explained what we gain out of NOT using numeric.
> So if you want to have possibly different internal and external > representations, why not use interval for the external one? That doesn't add any usefulness, only extra complication for clients that want to do more arithmetic with the values. Also, as was pointed out earlier, we have a hard-coded restriction to microsecond precision with the default implementation of interval; and it's not hard to foresee the day when that won't do. regards, tom lane -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers