Re: Type Categories for User-Defined Types

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: "David E(dot) Wheeler" <david(at)kineticode(dot)com>
Cc: pgsql-hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Type Categories for User-Defined Types
Date: 2008-07-30 18:09:50
Message-ID: 1551.1217441390@sss.pgh.pa.us
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"David E. Wheeler" <david(at)kineticode(dot)com> writes:
> On Jul 30, 2008, at 10:34, Tom Lane wrote:
>> The behavior that's hard-wired into parse_coerce.c at the moment
>> is that only text, varchar, bpchar can be sources or targets of
>> I/O conversions. While opening it up to citext sounds reasonable,
>> I'm a lot less sure about domains.
>> [ uh, no, actually domains do work here ]
>> So maybe the domain issue isn't so important.

> What about enums?

Er, what about them? I don't see that they enter into this at all.

regards, tom lane

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