On 12/23/2011 10:05 AM, Tom Lane wrote:
> Magnus Hagander<magnus@hagander.net> writes:
>>> At this point, my question is: do we want to support the lsn data type idea or
>>> a basic function that implements the difference between LSNs?
>> Personally I think a function is enough - it solves the only case that
>> I've actually seen. But a datatype would be a more complete solution,
>> of course - but it seems a bit of an overkill to me. Not really sure
>> which way we should go - I was hoping somebody else would comment as
>> well..
> I too think a datatype is overkill, if we're only planning on providing
> one function. Just emit the values as numeric and have done.
>
>
+1.
cheers
andrew