> The official SQL data types are "timestamp" and
> "interval", right? Everything else will eventually be an alias or
> phased out or whatever?
No (at least I haven't proposed that). abstime stays as a 4-byte
internal system time type. timestamp and interval become full-featured
date/time types, stealing all of the datetime and timespan code, and
the latter two become synonyms for timestamp and interval.
> I've been itching to change the pg_shadow.valuntil column to timestamp
> anyway, I suppose that would be a step in the right direction, or not?
At the moment, there are *no* 8-byte date/time types in the system
tables. This would be the first instance of that, and I'm not sure we
should introduce it in just one place.
Has abstime been a problem here?
- Thomas
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South Pasadena, California