From: | Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us> |
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To: | lockhart(at)fourpalms(dot)org |
Cc: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>, Thomas Lockhart <lockhart(at)alumni(dot)caltech(dot)edu>, PostgreSQL Development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
Subject: | Re: timestamp with/without time zone |
Date: | 2001-07-10 21:38:51 |
Message-ID: | 200107102138.f6ALcpx10856@candle.pha.pa.us |
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> > I believe everyone already agreed that 'current' should be removed.
> > 'invalid' seems somewhat redundant with NULL, so I wouldn't object to
> > taking it out; on the other hand, is it hurting anything? Also, it
> > seems a bad idea to remove it from timestamp if we leave it in abstime;
> > you shouldn't have to worry that casting abstime up to timestamp might
> > fail.
>
> I wouldn't worry about that, since we can now return NULL in the
> translation of abstime to timestamp. otoh we could choose to do the same
> for abstime itself, so 'invalid' is not fundamentally necessary for that
> type anymore either.
Is this a TODO item?
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