Date: Tue, 21 Feb 2017 23:53:45 -0800
From: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
To: Jim Nasby <Jim.Nasby@BlueTreble.com>
Cc: Petr Jelinek <petr.jelinek@2ndquadrant.com>,
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Subject: Re: Replication vs. float timestamps is a disaster
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On 2017-02-22 00:10:35 -0600, Jim Nasby wrote:
> On 2/20/17 5:04 AM, Andres Freund wrote:
> > On 2017-02-20 11:58:12 +0100, Petr Jelinek wrote:
> > > That being said, I did wonder myself if we should just deprecate float
> > > timestamps as well.
> > 
> > I think we need a proper deprecation period for that, given that the
> > conversion away will be painful for pg_upgrade using people with big
> > clusters.  So I think we should fix this regardless... :(
> 
> I wounder if a separate "floatstamp" data type might fit the bill there. It
> might not be completely seamless, but it would be binary compatible.

I don't really see what'd that solve.

- Andres


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