Re: timestamp with/without time zone - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Bruce Momjian
Subject Re: timestamp with/without time zone
Date
Msg-id 200107102138.f6ALcpx10856@candle.pha.pa.us
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In response to Re: timestamp with/without time zone  (Thomas Lockhart <lockhart@fourpalms.org>)
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> > I believe everyone already agreed that 'current' should be removed.
> > 'invalid' seems somewhat redundant with NULL, so I wouldn't object to
> > taking it out; on the other hand, is it hurting anything?  Also, it
> > seems a bad idea to remove it from timestamp if we leave it in abstime;
> > you shouldn't have to worry that casting abstime up to timestamp might
> > fail.
> 
> I wouldn't worry about that, since we can now return NULL in the
> translation of abstime to timestamp. otoh we could choose to do the same
> for abstime itself, so 'invalid' is not fundamentally necessary for that
> type anymore either.

Is this a TODO item?


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