| From: | Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us> |
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| To: | Thomas Lockhart <lockhart(at)alumni(dot)caltech(dot)edu> |
| Cc: | Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>, Jan Wieck <jwieck(at)debis(dot)com>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgreSQL(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: [HACKERS] Re: Status on 7.0 |
| Date: | 2000-01-21 03:52:13 |
| Message-ID: | 200001210352.WAA09379@candle.pha.pa.us |
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> One reason this hasn't been done is that we would lose the
> (occasional) correspondence between internal names and external names,
> which isn't a very good reason.
>
> I've also thought that we might implement some "by reference" types to
> replace the "by value" types we have now (and use the SQL92 names for
> them). But Tom Lane has talked about fixing up the internal problems
> we have with passing info about NULLs with "by value" types, so that
> might be a bad way to head. However, the downside to eliminating "by
> value"s (extra footprint?) might be offset by being able to remove
> code which has to handle both cases (extra speed?).
I have added a TODO item:
* add pg_dump option to dump type names as standard ANSI types
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