Re: Can we drop ABSTIME?

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