Re: Top five challenges - Mailing list pgsql-advocacy

From sad@bestmx.ru
Subject Re: Top five challenges
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Msg-id Prayer.1.3.3.1103021423530.25961@km21038-04.keymachine.de
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In response to Re: Top five challenges  (Josh Berkus <josh@agliodbs.com>)
Responses Re: Top five challenges  (Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@commandprompt.com>)
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On Mar 2 2011, Josh Berkus wrote:

>Sad,
>
>Thanks for the wishlist, but this doesn't seem likely to be the top
>priorities of new adopters.  ;-)
>
>> 1. To get rid of nasty CSTRING type
>> 2. To get rid of the difference between TEXT and BYTEA (and then get rid
>> of the BYTEA)
>> 3. To make TIMESTAMPTZ useful by introducing proper type cast
>> TIMESTAMPTZ to TIMESTAMP
>
>Why are you using Timestamp-no-tz at all?  I was thinking we should
>change the default ...

Why did u introduced it?


>> 4. Introduce a pair of preferences (server_timezone, client_timezone)
>> instead of a single pref (timezone) (and use their values similar as
>> (client_encoding, server_encoding) are used)
>
>When would server_timezone be used?
>
>

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