Re: Floating-point timestamps versus Range Types

On 10/17/2010 04:40 PM, Tom Lane wrote:
> At the earliest, we could consider dropping them when we drop support
> for in-place upgrade from 8.3 --- not only direct upgrade, but through
> multiple pg_upgrade steps.  That's assuming that we think there are
> no users who are depending on float timestamps for functionality (they
> have a wider range than int timestamps don't they?).

Yes, they do.


Maybe we need to look at providing a bigtimestamp type or similar at 
some stage. Or maybe the demand for it would be so low it should be an 
add-on module.

cheers

andrew