[R-sig-DB] RMySQL still treats timestamp as character?

[David James]

Hi Alexy,

Dates in MySQL (and other databases) may span outside the range of
currently supported
POSIX implementations (ie., under 32-bits), thus the character
representation is known
to work regardless of the dates themselves, e.g., before the Unix epoch.

Regards,

--
David,

On Sat, Aug 30, 2008 at 1:09 AM, Alexy Khrabrov <deliverable using gmail.com> wrote:
> Greetings -- downloaded RMySQL 0.6.0, and on a table with timestamps it gets
> them over as character.  Found an email in this group from 2006, about
> switching to RODBC, did that, got lovely floats...  Any progress on that for
> RMySQL proper?
>
> Cheers,
> Alexy
>
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