Re: pgsql-server: Make the world very nearly safe for composite-type

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: pgsql-committers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: pgsql-server: Make the world very nearly safe for composite-type
Date: 2004-06-05 04:59:52
Message-ID: 15115.1086411592@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us> writes:
> Does this complete this TODO item?
> * Support composite types as table columns

Was "we surely cannot ship them like this" not clear enough?

>> If you dike out the preventive check in CheckAttributeType(),
>> composite-type columns now seem to actually work. However, we surely
>> cannot ship them like this --- without I/O for composite types, you
>> can't get pg_dump to dump tables containing them. So a little more
>> work still to do.

regards, tom lane

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