2009/11/24 Hannu Krosing <ha...@2ndquadrant.com> > On Sun, 2009-11-22 at 18:51 -0500, Tom Lane wrote: > > Craig Ringer <cr...@postnewspapers.com.au> writes: > > > I do think this comes up often enough that a built-in trigger "update > > > named column with result of expression on insert" trigger might be > > > desirable. > > > > There's something of the sort in contrib already, I believe, though > > it's so old it still uses abstime :-( > > What's wrong with abstime ? > > it is valid for timestamps up to 2038-01-19 and it's on-disk size > smaller than other timestamp options > > But it's very very deprecated and could be removed at any time. It's been so for years now, and I wouldn't want to *start* using something which is deprecated.
Thom
