Re: Wishlist: parameterizable types

From: Stephen Frost <sfrost(at)snowman(dot)net>
To: Joey Adams <joeyadams3(dot)14159(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Wishlist: parameterizable types
Date: 2011-12-22 17:05:53
Message-ID: 20111222170553.GI24234@tamriel.snowman.net
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* Joey Adams (joeyadams3(dot)14159(at)gmail(dot)com) wrote:
> This may be ambitious, but it'd be neat if PostgreSQL supported
> parameterizable types. For example, suppose a contrib module defines
> a "pair" type. It could be used as follows:

Have you looked at what the PostGIS folks are doing..? We do have
support for custom typmod's... I'm not sure if that helps you at all,
but figured I'd mention it.

Thanks,

Stephen

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