PostgreSQL Database Management System ===================================== This directory contains the source code distribution of the PostgreSQL database management system. PostgreSQL is an advanced object-relational database management system that supports an extended subset of the SQL standard, including transactions, foreign keys, subqueries, triggers, user-defined types and functions. This distribution also contains C language bindings. PostgreSQL has many language interfaces, many of which are listed here: http://www.postgresql.org/download See the file INSTALL for instructions on how to build and install PostgreSQL. That file also lists supported operating systems and hardware platforms and contains information regarding any other software packages that are required to build or run the PostgreSQL system. Copyright and license information can be found in the file COPYRIGHT. A comprehensive documentation set is included in this distribution; it can be read as described in the installation instructions. The latest version of this software may be obtained at http://www.postgresql.org/download/. For more information look at our web site located at http://www.postgresql.org/.
Tom Lane
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Per discussion, the time has come to do this. The handwriting has been on the wall at least since 9.0 that this would happen someday, whenever it got to be too much of a burden to support the float-timestamp option. The triggering factor now is the discovery that there are multiple bugs in the code that attempts to implement use of integer timestamps in the replication protocol even when the server is built for float timestamps. The internal float timestamps leak into the protocol fields in places. While we could fix the identified bugs, there's a very high risk of introducing more. Trying to build a wall that would positively prevent mixing integer and float timestamps is more complexity than we want to undertake to maintain a long-deprecated option. The fact that these bugs weren't found through testing also indicates a lack of interest in float timestamps. This commit disables configure's --disable-integer-datetimes switch (it'll still accept --enable-integer-datetimes, though), removes direct references to USE_INTEGER_DATETIMES, and removes discussion of float timestamps from the user documentation. A considerable amount of code is rendered dead by this, but removing that will occur as separate mop-up. Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/26788.1487455319@sss.pgh.pa.us
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