rails/rails — pull request #15184 by sgrif (2014-05-19 18:32:52+00:00)
Title: Remove :timestamp column type

The `:timestamp` type for columns is unused. All database adapters treat
them as the same database type. All code in `ActiveRecord` which changes
its behavior based on the column's type acts the same in both cases.
However, when the type is passed to code that checks for the `:datetime`
type, but not `:timestamp` (such as XML serialization), the result is
unexpected behavior.

Existing schema definitions will continue to work, and the `timestamp`
type is transparently aliased to `datetime`.