Re: Proposal: temporal extension "period" data type - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Jeff Davis
Subject Re: Proposal: temporal extension "period" data type
Date
Msg-id 1211822595.26526.144.camel@jdavis
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In response to Re: Proposal: temporal extension "period" data type  (Greg Smith <gsmith@gregsmith.com>)
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On Mon, 2008-05-26 at 08:49 -0400, Greg Smith wrote:
> On Mon, 26 May 2008, Jeff Davis wrote:
> 
> > And including in core has the usual drawbacks, like waiting for a new 
> > PostgreSQL release just to get some improvement for the data type.
> 
> How stable has the core code implementation been recently?  If major 
> changes to it are unlikely anyway because it's matured, this downside is a 
> lot less important.

Aside from name changes, the code has been fairly static. However, I
expect that others will have suggestions about improving the picksplit
algorithm, selectivity functions, etc.

Regards,Jeff Davis



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