Re: [HACKERS] Replication vs. float timestamps is a disaster - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Tom Lane
Subject Re: [HACKERS] Replication vs. float timestamps is a disaster
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Msg-id 31709.1487599811@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to Re: [HACKERS] Replication vs. float timestamps is a disaster  (Petr Jelinek <petr.jelinek@2ndquadrant.com>)
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Petr Jelinek <petr.jelinek@2ndquadrant.com> writes:
> It's definitely not hard, we already have
> IntegerTimestampToTimestampTz() which does the opposite conversion anyway.

It's not the functions that are hard, it's making sure that you have used
them in the correct places, and declared relevant variables with the
appropriate types.  Evidence on the ground is that that is very hard;
I have little faith that we'll get it right without compiler support.
        regards, tom lane



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