Re: index over timestamp not being used - Mailing list pgsql-performance

Hi Tom,

>
> Alternatively, do you really need to_timestamp at all?  The standard
> timestamp input routine won't have any problem with that format:
>     t.timestamp_in >= '20070101'

This is always I think I'm worried, what happens if one day the internal
format in which the DB stores the date/timestamps changes. I mean, if
instead of being stored as YYYYMMDD is stored as DDMMYYYY, should we
have to change all the queries? I thought the
to_char/to_date/to_timestamp functions were intented for this purposes


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Arnau