Hannu Krosing <hannu(at)trust(dot)ee> writes:
> We should develop (or at least prominently promote _and_ document) some
> kind of file/package format or tool (maybe like illustra datablades),
> that would standardize the layout of contrib types.
> Also, the need to manually get oids is a real show-stopper.
Yes. I've been thinking off and on about some homegrown data types
(not general-purpose enough to be worthwhile even as contrib material).
But the admin overhead seems like a real pain. If we want to promote
Postgres' type system as a major benefit, we ought to work harder at
making it easy to add locally-defined types.
regards, tom lane