Re: timestamps-accuracy - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Martijn van Oosterhout
Subject Re: timestamps-accuracy
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Msg-id 20080509091613.GA15417@svana.org
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In response to timestamps-accuracy  (Justin <justin@emproshunts.com>)
List pgsql-general
On Fri, May 09, 2008 at 04:59:30AM -0400, Justin wrote:
> generail this don't hurt us but we have some needs with data coming from
> manufacturing testing applications that needs to keep the timestamps to
> .000,000,001 aka 1 nano second.
> what would be the easiest way to do this?

I would suggest storing it as epoch time (seconds since X) in a numeric
fields and create some helper functions to get data in and out in the
right format. Or a timestamp(0) column with an additional nano-second
column.

Depending on how often you use it it may be interesting to create a
specific type, but this may come close enough.

Have a nice day,
--
Martijn van Oosterhout   <kleptog@svana.org>   http://svana.org/kleptog/
> Please line up in a tree and maintain the heap invariant while
> boarding. Thank you for flying nlogn airlines.

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