Re: C function question

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Merlin Moncure <mmoncure(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)alvh(dot)no-ip(dot)org>, Grzegorz Jaśkiewicz <gryzman(at)gmail(dot)com>, General Postgres Mailing List <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: C function question
Date: 2009-02-03 23:16:15
Message-ID: 17345.1233702975@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Merlin Moncure <mmoncure(at)gmail(dot)com> writes:
> On Tue, Feb 3, 2009 at 4:28 PM, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
>> 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".)

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

[ raised eyebrow... ] You've got apps that depend on array of "char"?

regards, tom lane

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