Re: Proposal: stand-alone composite types

From: Thomas Lockhart <lockhart(at)fourpalms(dot)org>
To: Joe Conway <mail(at)joeconway(dot)com>
Cc: Rod Taylor <rbt(at)zort(dot)ca>, Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>, pgsql-hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Proposal: stand-alone composite types
Date: 2002-08-10 00:26:30
Message-ID: 3D545DB6.6C3FF8A1@fourpalms.org
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> That's what I was thinking. In cases where you want to use the type for
> several functions, use CREATE TYPE. If you only need the type for one
> function, let the function creation process manage it for you.

It would be nice then to have some mechanism for converting the
"automatic type" to a named type which could be used elsewhere.
Otherwise one would need to garbage collect the separate stuff later,
which would probably go into the "not so convenient" category of
features...

- Thomas

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