Re: Proposal: temporal extension "period" data type - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Andrew Dunstan
Subject Re: Proposal: temporal extension "period" data type
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Msg-id 483A959F.5040502@dunslane.net
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In response to Proposal: temporal extension "period" data type  (Jeff Davis <pgsql@j-davis.com>)
Responses Re: Proposal: temporal extension "period" data type  (Jeff Davis <pgsql@j-davis.com>)
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Jeff Davis wrote:
> During PGCon 2008, several people encouraged me to submit the code for
> inclusion in the core.
>
> The advantages of including it in core are that some features can't be
> done from pgfoundry, such as:
>  * temporal foreign keys
>  * temporal joins
>   

Maybe I'm being dense, but how does inclusion in core help you do these 
things? Or, more precisely, how does non-inclusion in core prevent them.

>  * syntax like "ALTER TABLE ... ADD LOG".
>   

What does this mean?


cheers

andrew



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