From: | Jeff Davis <list-pgsql-general(at)empires(dot)org> |
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To: | pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org |
Subject: | Re: composite types in 7.3 |
Date: | 2002-10-01 00:53:43 |
Message-ID: | 200209301753.43143.list-pgsql-general@empires.org |
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> Not at the moment. In fact, as of current (meaning by the time beta3 is
> packaged up, if it's not already this way in beta2) cvs you'll get:
>
> test=# create type mytype as (a int, b text);
> CREATE TYPE
> test=# create table mytable(x mytype,y int);
> ERROR: Attribute "x" has composite type mytype
>
> There have been brief discussions of allowing composite types as table
> column data types in some future release, but nothing serious yet.
I don't have any particular need for that feature, but I found it interesting.
I imagine that if the feature did exist like that, it would require a lot of
extra syntax for the queries.
Thanks,
Jeff
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