"Greg Sabino Mullane" <g...@turnstep.com> writes:
>> so that we could mark it immutable.  On the other hand, it's not
>> entirely apparent why people would need to create indexes on the epoch
>> value rather than just indexing the timestamp itself

> Well, it makes for smaller indexes if you don't really care about 
> sub-second resolutions.

Well, maybe in principle, but in practice it's an 8-byte value either
way.  I guess you could down-convert to an int4 if you plan to be
safely dead before 2038 ...

                        regards, tom lane

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