Refactoring the Type System

From: David Fetter <david(at)fetter(dot)org>
To: PG Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Refactoring the Type System
Date: 2010-11-12 16:34:18
Message-ID: 20101112163418.GC18948@fetter.org
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Folks,

For the past couple of years, I've been hearing from the PostGIS
people among others that our type system just isn't flexible enough
for their needs. It's really starting to show its age, or possibly
design compromises that seemed reasonable a decade or more ago, but
are less so now.

To that end, I've put up a page on the wiki that includes a list of
issues to be addressed. It's intended to be changed, possibly
completely.

http://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/Refactor_Type_System

What might the next version of the type system look like?

Cheers,
David.
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