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Old 05-10-2008, 03:04 PM
Martijn van Oosterhout
 
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Default Re: timestamps-accuracy

On Fri, May 09, 2008 at 04:59:30AM -0400, Justin wrote:
> generail this don't hurt us but we have some needs with data coming from
> manufacturing testing applications that needs to keep the timestamps to
> .000,000,001 aka 1 nano second.
> what would be the easiest way to do this?


I would suggest storing it as epoch time (seconds since X) in a numeric
fields and create some helper functions to get data in and out in the
right format. Or a timestamp(0) column with an additional nano-second
column.

Depending on how often you use it it may be interesting to create a
specific type, but this may come close enough.

Have a nice day,
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