Re: Floating point timestamps - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Stephen Frost
Subject Re: Floating point timestamps
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Msg-id 20160310145054.GX3127@tamriel.snowman.net
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In response to Re: Floating point timestamps  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
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* Tom Lane (tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us) wrote:
> Thomas Munro <thomas.munro@enterprisedb.com> writes:
> > Is the plan to remove support for floating point timestamps at some
> > stage?  If so, what is that waiting on, and would it provide
> > sufficient warning if (say) 9.6 were documented as the last major
> > release to support that build option?
>
> AFAIK there is no particular plan to do that.  It's not like leaving
> that code in place is costing us huge amounts of maintenance effort.

Agreed, and I have little doubt that it's still used in the field given
how long it was the default for some distributions.

Thanks!

Stephen

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