[HACKERS] removing abstime, reltime, tinterval.c, spi/timetravel

In-Reply-To: <20180928223240(dot)kgwc4czzzekrpsid(at)alap3(dot)anarazel(dot)de>

Hi,

As discussed below (at [1]), I think we should remove $subject. I plan
to do so, unless somebody protests soon-ish. I thought it'd be better
to call attention to this in a new thread, to make sure people had a
chance to object.

Regards,

Andres

In "Something for the TODO list: deprecating abstime and friends"
On 2018-09-28 15:32:40 -0700, Andres Freund wrote:
> On 2017-12-13 00:05:06 -0800, Andres Freund wrote:
> > > * contrib/spi/timetravel depends on abstime columns to represent what
> > > would nowadays be better done as a tstzrange. I'd have thought we
> > > could maybe toss that example module overboard, but we just today got
> > > a question about its usage, so I'm afraid it's not quite dead yet.
> > > What shall we do with that?
> >
> > Looking at the code I'd be pretty strongly inclined to scrap it.
> >
> >
> > Before I'd discovered this thread, I'd started to write up a
> > patch. Attached. It's clearly not fully done. Questions I'd while
> > hacking things up:
> > - what to do with contrib/spi/timetravel - I'd just removed it from the
> > relevant Makefile for now.
> > - nabstime.c currently implements timeofday() which imo is a pretty
> > weird function. I'd be quite inclined to remove it at the same time as
> > this.
>
> Here's a refreshed version of this patch. First patch removes
> contrib/spi/timetravel, second patch removes abstime, reltime, tinterval
> together with timeofday().
>
> I think we should just go ahead and commit something like this soon.

[1] http://archives.postgresql.org/message-id/20180928223240.kgwc4czzzekrpsid%40alap3.anarazel.de