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Why? If you're doing things correctly, you don't need to specify data types particularly often in SQL. You specify it once when the table is created and that'
by da_chicken 8y ago
Why? If you're doing things correctly, you don't need to specify data types particularly often in SQL. You specify it once when the table is created and that's it. All you care about on the programming interface is that your application knows what data type of your language to use with each data column. What's wrong with a verbose and descriptive name for a data type?
- kbrackbill 8y agoI don't think they're saying that having verbose name is dumb, I think it's that a type called "timestamp with time zone" doesn't actually store a time zone.
- da_chicken 8y agoYeah, that's what I initially thought, too, but some of the other responses have made me question that.
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