Josh Berkus <josh@agliodbs.com> writes:
> We've been carrying this warning in our docs since 7.4:
> "The key word ABSTIME is ignored for historical reasons: In very old
> releases of PostgreSQL, invalid values of type abstime were emitted as
> Invalid Abstime. This is no longer the case however and this key word
> will likely be dropped in a future release."
> So given that it's been depreciated for 5 versions, maybe it's time to
> rip it out?
Actually, the change in abstime's output function seems to have been
made in nabstime.c 1.14, committed Mar 14 1997 (pre-6.1). So I agree,
it's highly unlikely that anyone still needs this behavior.
regards, tom lane