At 8:35 PM +0100 16/7/12, Daniele Varrazzo wrote:
Even without this quirk, the problem of mapping timestamps to other languages data types could be an even stronger design factor. I've personally settled for 9999-12-31 which is python's datetime.max, maps ok to doubles and won't create problems for almost 8000 years. -- Daniele
Stephane Faroult ('The Art of SQL') says that dates so far in the future can throw off query planners. He explains it nicely here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gu0WJJXgEFM
Interesting discussion, thanks. Chris -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general
