[development] Re-Thinking Events in Drupal

[Gerhard Killesreiter]

Adrian Rossouw wrote:

> Due to the fact that we use timestamps, this gets a bit more complex,  
> as we need to do a whole lot
> of casting.
>
> Mysql :
> update sometable set next_bill_date = unix_timestamp(date_add 
> (form_unixtime(next_bill_date), interval 1 month))) where cid in ();
>
> Postgres :
> update sometable set next_bill_date = extract(epoch from (TIMESTAMP  
> WITH TIME ZONE 'epoch' + created * interval '1 second) + '1  
> month')::int where cid in ();
>
> What complicates matters is how drastically different postgres and  
> mysql handle dates, and the thing is
> in our specific use case, I'm not sure what benefits database field  
> types would give us without adding
> a whole lot of possibly unnecessary complexity.


IIRC this was the argument that lead to us to keep timestamps for events 
after lenghty discussions in Antwerp one year ago.  I still don't like 
it. :p

Cheers,
    Gerhard