Re: [HACKERS] removing abstime, reltime, tinterval.c, spi/timetravel - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Andres Freund
Subject Re: [HACKERS] removing abstime, reltime, tinterval.c, spi/timetravel
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Msg-id 20181012155821.ce5jlhyniqeemrjh@alap3.anarazel.de
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In response to Re: [HACKERS] removing abstime, reltime, tinterval.c, spi/timetravel  (Andrew Dunstan <andrew.dunstan@2ndquadrant.com>)
Responses Re: [HACKERS] removing abstime, reltime, tinterval.c, spi/timetravel  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
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Hi,

On 2018-10-12 11:23:30 -0400, Andrew Dunstan wrote:
> Anything that runs at the time we do the regression tests has problems, from
> my POV. If we run the drop commands then upgrading these types to a target
> <= 11 isn't tested.

I'm asking again, what exactly do we test by having these types in the
dump? They're bog standard types, there's nothing new for pg_dump to
test with them. No weird typmod rules, no weird parse-time type mapping,
nothing?

Greetings,

Andres Freund


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