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Date: Thu, 02 Apr 2009 10:51:33 -0700
From: Josh Berkus <josh@agliodbs.com>
Organization: Aglio Database Solutions
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To: "David E. Wheeler" <david@kineticode.com>
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Subject: Re: [HACKERS] Mentors needed urgently for SoC & PostgreSQL
	Student Internships
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On 4/2/09 8:48 AM, David E. Wheeler wrote:
> On Apr 2, 2009, at 7:20 AM, Steven Lembark wrote:
>
>>>> Note that since the Internships are not required to be project code,
>>>> we can also take student projects to contribute to our WWW
>>>> infrastructure and other areas the project needs some work.
>>
>> Would introducing a Duration (i.e., time-series
>> a'la Date, et al)) data type be considered useful?

Jeff Davis has already done a lot of this work; it's on pgFOundry somewhere.

--Josh