Jim Nasby wrote: > On May 5, 2007, at 10:38 AM, Neil Conway wrote: > > On Sat, 2007-05-05 at 11:03 -0400, Tom Lane wrote: > >> I'm not necessarily opposed to changing the default configure > >> selection, > >> but I am opposed to removing the FP code entirely. > > > > I would be satisfied with changing the default to integer and > > deprecating the FP code (but keeping it around as a configure option). > > Are there any objections to doing this for 8.3? > > One question... I've always assumed that FP date times suffers from > the inexact math issues that floats do; is that true? > > The only use I can think of for huge date values would be astronomy. > I know they deal with huge numbers, so maybe huge times as well. If > there is that kind of demand perhaps we'd want to continue supporting > FP dates... maybe via contrib, or as a different base data type.
Also, are we sure we can load a dump that used the float format? What happens for a date out of int8 range? -- Bruce Momjian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://momjian.us EnterpriseDB http://www.enterprisedb.com + If your life is a hard drive, Christ can be your backup. + ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 4: Have you searched our list archives? http://archives.postgresql.org
