On 10/08/2010, at 11:33 PM, John Huss wrote:

> On Tue, Aug 10, 2010 at 6:12 AM, Paul Hoadley <[email protected]> wrote:
> For the attribute that we may as well call the "birthday" attribute, I'm 
> using the "date" prototype from ERPrototypes.  Curiously (IMHO), this 
> prototype has an external type of "TIMESTAMP", even though Postgres offers 
> the 1-day-resolution "DATE" type.  In any case, I stuck with the prototype as 
> shipped.
> 
> I would consider that a bug in ERPrototypes, since there is a dateTime 
> prototype, the date prototype only makes sense if it is different.  But 
> fixing it is difficult since it could break everyone using it.  Even so, it 
> wouldn't be the first time such a thing was done, and I am a proponent of 
> getting things right, as long as the community is sufficiently notified.

I wonder if it's incidental to the real problem, though, which is that EOF and 
Java have no 1-day-resolution date type.  That is, and I haven't tested it 
(though it's on my list), I'm not sure that using PostgreSQL's DATE type would 
actually solve the problem.


-- 
Paul.

http://logicsquad.net/


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