Re: timestamp refactor effort

On Jan 12, 2008 5:23 PM, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
> Hmm, PackedTime seems like a fairly random name for the type --- there's
> not anything particularly "packed" about it IMO.
>
> I'm a bit inclined to suggest just using the Timestamp typedef.
> I guess though that there's some risk of confusion between values
> that actually are "timestamp without time zone" and values that need
> the same representation but aren't actually intended to represent a
> specific point in time.
>
> Maybe "TimeOffset" or "TimeValue" or something like that?

I do agree that Timestamp seems to express the same thing PackedTime
does Should we rename Timestamp to TimeOffset?

> Other than the name game, I think you're headed in the right direction.

Thanks.

I have a question. Are the low level representations of Timestamp and
TimestampTZ the same?

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