Re: [PHP-PEAR] Re: [PHP-CVS] cvs: php4 /pear/Cache/Container db.php

[email protected] (Jon Parise) Fri, 2 Mar 2001 10:50:12 -0500
Newsgroups php.pear
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On Fri, Mar 02, 2001 at 10:44:44AM -0500, Chuck Hagenbuch wrote:

> I realize there will be code changes necessary to deal with changing the 
> timestamp field to an int (in which we'd just store a unix timestamp), but I 
> think it's worth it so that we avoid portability problems between various 
> databases that either might not have timestamp fields, call them datetime, or 
> implement them differently...

I was under the impression that 'timestamp' was a standard SQL field
type.  At least, it appears to be under the SQL99 standard.

Ref: http://www.comptechnews.com/~reaster/sql99-syntax.txt

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