On Wednesday 14 January 2009 05:23:53 Tom Lane wrote:
> However, since there's no standard strftime escape for epoch,
> Robert's proposal to rip out the functionality would break any existing
> code that still depends on this formatting option.
If it came down to this, then I'd say rip it out. Naming log files by epoch
isn't exactly a user-friendly practice anyway, and there are equivalent but
more readable formatting options available.