Re: timestamp default values - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Brendan Jurd
Subject Re: timestamp default values
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Msg-id 37ed240d0508062141264379d5@mail.gmail.com
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In response to Re: timestamp default values  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
Responses Re: timestamp default values  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
remove  (Lipy Reis <lipyhpr@yahoo.com.br>)
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> I'd be interested to see how you do that, considering that abstime
> can't store fractional seconds.  timenow() is even more obsolete than
> timeofday() --- AFAICS it's not documented at all, anywhere.  The whole
> abstime datatype is obsolete, actually, and will have to go away
> sometime before 2038.
>

If the current implementation of timenow() is truly obsolete, would it
be verboten to change its return type?  We could rewrite the function
to return timestamp, for example.

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BJ

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