Re: typemode for variable types

From: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>
To: Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us>
Cc: Mohsen SM <mohsensoodkhah(at)gmail(dot)com>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: typemode for variable types
Date: 2014-02-24 20:24:10
Message-ID: 20140224202410.GT4759@eldon.alvh.no-ip.org
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Bruce Momjian escribió:
> On Sun, Feb 23, 2014 at 07:50:08AM +0330, Mohsen SM wrote:
> > Hello.
> > I have a new type similar to varchar.
> > I want to fine how did I can to calculate typemod
> > and where must I calculate typemod for this type.
>
> Well, typmods are type-specific, so there is no official way to
> calculate it. I would look at how an existing type uses typmod and copy
> that.

Our system is pretty neat. See a complex example here:
https://github.com/postgis/postgis/blob/svn-trunk/postgis/gserialized_typmod.c

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Álvaro Herrera http://www.2ndQuadrant.com/
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