Please, take this as constructive criticism, since i'm a proud open-source supporter... i would gladly use PostgreSQL at work, clunkier syntax or not, but it's otherwise difficult to sell it to my Windows-minded coworkers...
I would love to take this as constructive criticism, but you haven't provided any. You don't like $$, o.k. do you have a better solution? What is the problem with timestamp?
Joshua D. Drake
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