Re: Proposal: temporal extension "period" data type

From: Jeff Davis <pgsql(at)j-davis(dot)com>
To: Greg Smith <gsmith(at)gregsmith(dot)com>
Cc: pgsql-hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Proposal: temporal extension "period" data type
Date: 2008-05-26 17:23:15
Message-ID: 1211822595.26526.144.camel@jdavis
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On Mon, 2008-05-26 at 08:49 -0400, Greg Smith wrote:
> On Mon, 26 May 2008, Jeff Davis wrote:
>
> > And including in core has the usual drawbacks, like waiting for a new
> > PostgreSQL release just to get some improvement for the data type.
>
> How stable has the core code implementation been recently? If major
> changes to it are unlikely anyway because it's matured, this downside is a
> lot less important.

Aside from name changes, the code has been fairly static. However, I
expect that others will have suggestions about improving the picksplit
algorithm, selectivity functions, etc.

Regards,
Jeff Davis

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