Re: Why is time with timezone 12 bytes?

From: Josh Berkus <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com>
To: PG Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Why is time with timezone 12 bytes?
Date: 2010-09-22 22:01:39
Message-ID: 4C9A7CC3.5040509@agliodbs.com
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>> Also, what is the real range of our 8-byte *integer* timestamp?
>
> See the fine manual. I believe the limits have more to do with
> calendar arithmetic than with the nominal range of 2^64 microseconds.

I'm asking based on that. The docs only give the limits for a *float*
timestamp. I'd like to fix the docs, but I can only do it if I have the
data ...

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