On Wed, March 30, 2011 15:30, Geoff Harcourt wrote: > I'm interested in the answer to Byrne's original question, but I > think another solution here is to use '9999-12-31' as the infinite > date.
I had considered that, or at least something similar, but had received advice on the PG mailing list to use infinity instead. Depending upon what I learn I may have to resort to exactly that. The real question I have is: Why is such much effort devoted to providing in the framework what is already present in the DBMS? I cannot see what benefit accrues and there has to be some performance cost to executing code that serves no real purpose. At the very least it increases the maintenance burden. Sincerely, -- *** E-Mail is NOT a SECURE channel *** James B. Byrne mailto:byrn...@harte-lyne.ca Harte & Lyne Limited http://www.harte-lyne.ca 9 Brockley Drive vox: +1 905 561 1241 Hamilton, Ontario fax: +1 905 561 0757 Canada L8E 3C3 -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Core" group. To post to this group, send email to rubyonrails-core@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to rubyonrails-core+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-core?hl=en.
