[stellation-res] Firebird timestamps

["Jonathan Gossage" <jonathan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

The current version of Firebird (v1.02) does not support the BIGINT data
type which we use for storing time stamps. I see three possible solutions to
this problem.

1. Upgrade to using Firebird (v1.5) which does support BIGINT. This release
is currently in Beta 3 and they are hoping to have an official release by
the end of March/early April time frame.

2. Use the TIMESTAMP data type for Firebird and BIGINT for other databases.

3. Use TIMESTAMP as the default data type for time stamps. Is there a reason
why we have not done this before?

Thoughts?

Regards

Jonathan