Re: Why is time with timezone 12 bytes? - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Tom Lane
Subject Re: Why is time with timezone 12 bytes?
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Msg-id 17401.1285203619@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to Re: Why is time with timezone 12 bytes?  (Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>)
Responses Re: Why is time with timezone 12 bytes?  (Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>)
Re: Why is time with timezone 12 bytes?  (Josh Berkus <josh@agliodbs.com>)
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Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com> writes:
> Technically, there's no reason why we can't do this for 9.1.  What we
> can do is change the name of the "time with timezone" type to
> something like "oldtimetz", keeping the current OID.  And then we can
> add a new type called "time with timezone".  [ with large amounts of
> consequent work ]

I think you missed the point of my response, which is that there are
easily 10^6 more-pressing things to work on than the size of timetz.
Do you know of any actual use cases for it?
        regards, tom lane


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