Re: C function question

On Tue, Feb 3, 2009 at 4:28 PM, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
> Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)alvh(dot)no-ip(dot)org> writes:
>> Grzegorz Jaśkiewicz wrote:
>>> looks like it really has to be defined with "char" in double quotes. I
>>> thought just char is enough...
>
>> They're different types.
>
> You know, maybe we should stop holding our noses and do something about
> this old gotcha. That type's not going away anytime soon, but could we
> rename it to char1 or something like that? (With some sort of backward
> compatibility hack, like a domain named "char".)
>
> On the other hand, that might be more trouble than it's worth. Even
> with a domain alias, there'd be a nontrivial chance of breaking apps
> that look at the char columns of the system catalogs.

domains are out, unless arrays of domains are addressed first.

merlin