Re: timestamp refactor effort - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Tom Lane
Subject Re: timestamp refactor effort
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Msg-id 6070.1200244894@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to Re: timestamp refactor effort  ("Warren Turkal" <turkal@google.com>)
Responses Re: timestamp refactor effort  ("Warren Turkal" <turkal@google.com>)
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"Warren Turkal" <turkal@google.com> writes:
> I have a question. Are the low level representations of Timestamp and
> TimestampTZ the same?

They're the same but the interpretations are different, which is why
I think it's useful to have two typedefs as a way of documenting what
any given value is intended to be.  The argument for having a third
typedef would be exactly the same: to help document what a value is
intended to be.
        regards, tom lane


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