Re: domains aren't subtypes, right?

On Wed, 04 Jun 2003 09:58:35 -0700, Mikito Harakiri wrote:

> Proposition. The only date type allowed stored in the RDBMS should be
> INSTANCE/TIMESTAMP
>
> Other datatypes are functions:
>
> DATE = FLOOR(TIMESTAMP / Day)
> TIME = TIMESTAMP (mod) Day

        Simple answer: why stored types have to be the same as represented ones?

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