On Tue, 8 Nov 2005, Tom Lane wrote:
> I remembered what it was that was nagging me about having seen this
> before --- didn't we try using UNKNOWN to avoid having to choose between
> timestamp with/without time zone, and didn't that idea crash and burn?
> It'd be a good idea to go back and look at the details before thinking
> of adopting UNKNOWN in a more general context.
>
No, actually we went with this solution simply because we had no other
options. This may work fine for text data, but how could we possibly
implement sending in binary format?
Kris Jurka
