Re: [HACKERS] Arrays of Complex Types

Bruce Momjian wrote:
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> Your patch has been added to the PostgreSQL unapplied patches list at:
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> http://momjian.postgresql.org/cgi-bin/pgpatches
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> It will be applied as soon as one of the PostgreSQL committers reviews
> and approves it.
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So, hum, what happened to the idea of creating the array types only on
demand?

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> David Fetter wrote:
> > On Fri, Mar 30, 2007 at 05:08:42PM -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> > > David Fetter <david(at)fetter(dot)org> writes:
> > > > After several rounds of patches, it appears that it might be easier to
> > > > create a new typtype entry, which I'll tentatively call 'a' because it
> > > > seems a little fragile and a lot inelegant and hard to maintain to
> > > > have typtype='c' and typrelid=InvalidOid mean, "this is an array of
> > > > complex types."
> > >
> > > Uh, wouldn't it be typtype = 'c' and typelem != 0 ?
> >
> > Right. The attached patch passes the current regression tests and at
> > least to a "smoke test" level does what it's supposed to do. I'd
> > really like to help refactor the whole array system to use 'a', tho.
> >
> > Cheers,

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