From: | Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com> |
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To: | Mark Dilger <hornschnorter(at)gmail(dot)com> |
Cc: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, "pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org" <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
Subject: | Re: Something for the TODO list: deprecating abstime and friends |
Date: | 2017-07-19 19:45:06 |
Message-ID: | CA+TgmoZZeo9oz=59NHwHQzMEY-PKeCZA1=yU4NHgMrwtyoeBMQ@mail.gmail.com |
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On Wed, Jul 19, 2017 at 3:26 PM, Mark Dilger <hornschnorter(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
>> Typically, when you try to store an out-of-range value in PostgreSQL,
>> you get an ERROR, and that's one of the selling points of PostgreSQL.
>> PostgreSQL users regularly beat up other projects for, say, allowing
>> 0000-00-00 to be considered a valid date, or any similar perceived
>> laxity in enforcing data consistency. I don't like the idea that we
>> can just deviate from that principle whenever adhering to it is too
>> much work.
>
> I don't see the relevance of this statement. I am not planning to allow
> abstime data that is outside the range of the new epoch. Attempts to
> cast strings like '1962-07-07 01:02:03' to abstime would draw an
> exception with a suitably informative message.
>
> Now, the objection to having on-disk data automagically change meaning
> is concerning, ...
I see those things as very similar issues, but YMMV.
> ... and I was particularly unsatisfied with the idea that
> NOSTART_ABSTIME and NOEND_ABSTIME would suddenly be
> reinterpreted as seconds in the year 2068, which is why I made mention
> of it upthread. I was less concerned with dates prior to 1970 being
> reinterpreted, though it is hard to justify why that bothers me less.
I think any change in the meaning of bytes already on disk is a
concern. It wouldn't bother me to say "these are second-class types,
so if you have columns of this type, pg_upgrade will fail and tell you
that you can't upgrade a database with those columns from a catversion
< X to a catversion > X". But having it silently work and silently
corrupt your data doesn't seem OK to me.
> Those who feel otherwise might like to also argue for dropping
> float4 because float8 does all the same stuff better.
I don't think that's the same thing, but given my notorious hatred of
floating point arithmetic, it would also bother me less than you might
think.
--
Robert Haas
EnterpriseDB: http://www.enterprisedb.com
The Enterprise PostgreSQL Company
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