Bruce Momjian writes:
I am looking at tens of millions of rows, which is why my predecessor may have used integer to store epoch to save space.Our timestamp has a much larger range than a 4-byte time_t, docs say: <entry>4713 BC</entry> <entry>294276 AD</entry>
Given that all of our dates will fall within what we can store in 4bytes, what would be the easiest way to use epoch as a timestamp?
Create a couple of functions so our developers can use a date representation like '20080508 12:40:00' and have the functions tranlate strings to epoch and back?
