Re: Floating-point timestamps versus Range Types

From: "Joshua D(dot) Drake" <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com>
To: "David E(dot) Wheeler" <david(at)kineticode(dot)com>
Cc: Jeff Davis <pgsql(at)j-davis(dot)com>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Floating-point timestamps versus Range Types
Date: 2010-10-17 19:03:49
Message-ID: 1287342229.30052.1.camel@jd-desktop
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On Sun, 2010-10-17 at 10:00 -0700, David E. Wheeler wrote:
> On Oct 17, 2010, at 9:56 AM, Jeff Davis wrote:
>
> > 3. Somehow deprecate floating point timestamps or make them unusable in
> > conjunction with Range Types. I'm not sure if there is demand to keep
> > them alive or not.
>

This seems the best solution. We finally got around to making
--integer-datetimes the default in 8.4.

The only major distribution that I know of that ships the deprecated
configuration is RedHat/Fedora. I don't know when that will change.

JD

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