2009/11/24 Hannu Krosing <hannu@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
On Sun, 2009-11-22 at 18:51 -0500, Tom Lane wrote:What's wrong with abstime ?
> Craig Ringer <craig@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
> > I do think this comes up often enough that a built-in trigger "update
> > named column with result of _expression_ on insert" trigger might be
> > desirable.
>
> There's something of the sort in contrib already, I believe, though
> it's so old it still uses abstime :-(
it is valid for timestamps up to 2038-01-19 and it's on-disk size
smaller than other timestamp options
But it's very very deprecated and could be removed at any time. It's been so for years now, and I wouldn't want to *start* using something which is deprecated.
Thom
