Обсуждение: Floating point timestamps
Hi, Is the plan to remove support for floating point timestamps at some stage? If so, what is that waiting on, and would it provide sufficient warning if (say) 9.6 were documented as the last major release to support that build option? Thanks! -- Thomas Munro http://www.enterprisedb.com
Thomas Munro <thomas.munro@enterprisedb.com> writes: > Is the plan to remove support for floating point timestamps at some > stage? If so, what is that waiting on, and would it provide > sufficient warning if (say) 9.6 were documented as the last major > release to support that build option? AFAIK there is no particular plan to do that. It's not like leaving that code in place is costing us huge amounts of maintenance effort. regards, tom lane
* Tom Lane (tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us) wrote: > Thomas Munro <thomas.munro@enterprisedb.com> writes: > > Is the plan to remove support for floating point timestamps at some > > stage? If so, what is that waiting on, and would it provide > > sufficient warning if (say) 9.6 were documented as the last major > > release to support that build option? > > AFAIK there is no particular plan to do that. It's not like leaving > that code in place is costing us huge amounts of maintenance effort. Agreed, and I have little doubt that it's still used in the field given how long it was the default for some distributions. Thanks! Stephen
Stephen Frost wrote: > * Tom Lane (tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us) wrote: > > Thomas Munro <thomas.munro@enterprisedb.com> writes: > > > Is the plan to remove support for floating point timestamps at some > > > stage? If so, what is that waiting on, and would it provide > > > sufficient warning if (say) 9.6 were documented as the last major > > > release to support that build option? > > > > AFAIK there is no particular plan to do that. It's not like leaving > > that code in place is costing us huge amounts of maintenance effort. > > Agreed, and I have little doubt that it's still used in the field given > how long it was the default for some distributions. ... and the fact that you can pg_upgrade from old versions that had such defaults, but only if the new install uses the same datetime representation. IOW it's quite likely that there are versions in the field still working with FP datetimes. -- Álvaro Herrera http://www.2ndQuadrant.com/ PostgreSQL Development, 24x7 Support, Remote DBA, Training & Services