On 2017-02-22 00:10:35 -0600, Jim Nasby wrote:
> On 2/20/17 5:04 AM, Andres Freund wrote:
> > On 2017-02-20 11:58:12 +0100, Petr Jelinek wrote:
> > > That being said, I did wonder myself if we should just deprecate float
> > > timestamps as well.
> >
> > I think we need a proper deprecation period for that, given that the
> > conversion away will be painful for pg_upgrade using people with big
> > clusters. So I think we should fix this regardless... :(
>
> I wounder if a separate "floatstamp" data type might fit the bill there. It
> might not be completely seamless, but it would be binary compatible.
I don't really see what'd that solve.
- Andres
