Re: [HACKERS] Re: date/time type changes - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Bruce Momjian
Subject Re: [HACKERS] Re: date/time type changes
Date
Msg-id 200001041952.OAA21002@candle.pha.pa.us
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In response to Re: [HACKERS] Re: date/time type changes  (Thomas Lockhart <lockhart@alumni.caltech.edu>)
List pgsql-hackers
> > Could you outline the proposed changes?  I am currently using datetime
> > and want to make sure my code doesn't break.
> > > > Thomas, are you planning on unifying the date/time types for 7.0?
> 
> The datetime type will become "timestamp" and the timespan type will
> become "interval". Both "datetime" and "timespan" will become aliases
> for timestamp and interval, respectively, and code *should* work
> without having to be changed.

Wouldn't it make more sense to rename timestamp to datetime because
datetime is the ANSI name?  Just asking.

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