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

From Thomas Lockhart
Subject Re: [HACKERS] TODO list
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Msg-id 3882D378.71F6A86@alumni.caltech.edu
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In response to TODO list  (Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>)
Responses Re: [HACKERS] TODO list
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> I was meaning to ask you which of the date/time types are going to be
> left standing when the dust settles.  (I know you've said, but the
> archives are so messed up right now that I can't find it.)
> Timestamp is the only remaining standard type without an array type,
> and if it's not going to be deprecated then it ought to have one...

"timestamp" will continue, but *all* of the code will come from a
renamed "datetime". So don't bother adding anything for timestamp,
since it will magically appear when datetime gets renamed.

btw, I will make "datetime" a synonym for "timestamp", so existing
apps should work without change.
                   - Thomas

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


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