Re: [HACKERS] TODO list - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Thomas Lockhart
Subject Re: [HACKERS] TODO list
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Msg-id 3882CC7A.25F9C11F@alumni.caltech.edu
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In response to TODO list  (Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>)
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> * Allow array on int8[]
> Done. (Credit to Thomas, thought, he just forgot to apply the patch.)

Thanks. btw, didn't forget, but wanted confirmation that it worked
(which I got a day or two later).

> * Make Absolutetime/Relativetime int4 because time_t can be int8 on some
> ports
> Does this mean the abstime/reltime types or all of them?  I thought the
> former were deprecated anyway.

abstime should probably be considered deprecated as a user type, but
it is still used extensively internally and within the tuple
structure. I'd be reluctant to wholesale replace it with
timestamp/datetime, since that will take 8 bytes per value rather than
4.
                      - Thomas

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Thomas Lockhart                lockhart@alumni.caltech.edu
South Pasadena, California


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