On Sun, 2009-11-22 at 18:51 -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
> Craig Ringer <craig@postnewspapers.com.au> writes:
> > I do think this comes up often enough that a built-in trigger "update
> > named column with result of expression on insert" trigger might be
> > desirable.
>
> There's something of the sort in contrib already, I believe, though
> it's so old it still uses abstime :-(
What's wrong with abstime ?
it is valid for timestamps up to 2038-01-19 and it's on-disk size
smaller than other timestamp options
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