On 2/20/17 5:04 AM, Andres Freund wrote:
On 2017-02-20 11:58:12 +0100, Petr Jelinek wrote:
That being said, I did wonder myself if we should just deprecate float
timestamps as well.

I think we need a proper deprecation period for that, given that the
conversion away will be painful for pg_upgrade using people with big
clusters.  So I think we should fix this regardless... :(

I wounder if a separate "floatstamp" data type might fit the bill there. It might not be completely seamless, but it would be binary compatible.
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