On Wed, Apr 25, 2012 at 5:33 PM, Tom Lane <t...@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote: > 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.
Agreed. -- Robert Haas EnterpriseDB: http://www.enterprisedb.com The Enterprise PostgreSQL Company -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
