> > Have you observed otherwise?
> Yes. Specifically timestamps are dumped in a way that (1) they lose
> percision (2) sometimes have 60 in the seconds field which prevents the
> dump from being restored.
The loss of precision for timestamp data stems from conservative
attempts to get consistant behavior from the data type. It is certainly
not entirely successful, but changes would have to solve some of these
problems without introducing more.
I've only seen the "60 seconds problem" with earlier Mandrake distros
which combined normal compiler optimizations with a "fast math"
optimization, against the apparent advice of the gcc developers. What
kind of system are you on, and how did you build PostgreSQL?
Regards.
- Thomas