Re: timestamp refactor effort - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Warren Turkal
Subject Re: timestamp refactor effort
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Msg-id 8c3d85470801141133y5c6a8b64i11430d96e242bc4c@mail.gmail.com
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In response to Re: timestamp refactor effort  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
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On Jan 13, 2008 9:21 AM, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
> "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.

Makes sense.

wt


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