May 22, 2021
9:51 p.m.
On 5/22/21 2:41 PM, Tom Lane via tz wrote:
why are the changes Paul is proposing okay?
The goal is to simplify long-term maintenance in exchange for trivial short-term pain. Over the years I've spent far too much time maintaining irrelevant info and getting bogged down with the resulting politics. Had this change been installed a while ago, for example, we would have saved significant time by not worrying about timekeeping in Vietnam before 1970. No doubt there will be similar issues in the future, and the less irrelevant data we have now, the better off we'll be in the future.