Re: Replication vs. float timestamps is a disaster

From: Jim Nasby <Jim(dot)Nasby(at)BlueTreble(dot)com>
To: James Cloos <cloos(at)jhcloos(dot)com>, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de>, Petr Jelinek <petr(dot)jelinek(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>, "pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org" <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Replication vs. float timestamps is a disaster
Date: 2017-02-22 05:59:09
Message-ID: 7b94f406-0cc0-20d6-f6e8-e677e6e8adb2@BlueTreble.com
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On 2/21/17 4:52 PM, James Cloos wrote:
>>>>>> "TL" == Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> writes:
> TL> The question to be asked is whether there is still anybody out there
> TL> using float timestamps.
>
> Gentoo's ebuild includes:
>
> $(use_enable !pg_legacytimestamp integer-datetimes) \

FWIW, last time I looked it was also an option in FreeBSD's ports,
though I think it's defaulted to int since forever ago (like, 7.4 era).
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