Re: [HACKERS] Replication vs. float timestamps is a disaster

Petr Jelinek <petr.jelinek@2ndquadrant.com> writes:
> It's definitely not hard, we already have
> IntegerTimestampToTimestampTz() which does the opposite conversion anyway.

It's not the functions that are hard, it's making sure that you have used
them in the correct places, and declared relevant variables with the
appropriate types.  Evidence on the ground is that that is very hard;
I have little faith that we'll get it right without compiler support.
        regards, tom lane