From: Jim Nasby <Jim.Nasby@BlueTreble.com>
To: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
To: Petr Jelinek <petr.jelinek@2ndquadrant.com>
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Cc: Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: Replication vs. float timestamps is a disaster
Date: Wed, 22 Feb 2017 00:10:35 -0600
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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.
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