Re: [HACKERS] bitten by docs

>   Note: To ensure compatibility to earlier versions of PostgreSQL
>   we also continue to provide datetime (equivalent to timestamp)
>   and timespan (equivalent to interval).
>   The types abstime and reltime are lower precision types which
>   are used internally. You are discouraged from using any of these
>   types in new applications and move any old ones over when
>   appropriate. Any or all of these type might disappear in a future
>   release.

I'll probably rephrase this to emphasize that datetime et al are now
deprecated and will eventually disappear.
                 - Thomas

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Thomas Lockhart                lockhart@alumni.caltech.edu
South Pasadena, California