Reg Me Please <regmeplease@gmail.com> writes:
> Il Thursday 08 November 2007 16:18:58 Tom Lane ha scritto:
>> It's either an int8 representing microseconds away from 2000-01-01
>> 00:00:00 UTC, or a float8 representing seconds away from the same
>> origin.
> Does this mean that negative numbers are for timestamps before y2k?
Right.
> Why and when there is a choice between int8 and float8 representation?
configure --enable-integer-datetimes.
regards, tom lane