| From: | Zdenek Kotala <Zdenek(dot)Kotala(at)Sun(dot)COM> |
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| To: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
| Cc: | "David E(dot) Wheeler" <david(at)kineticode(dot)com>, Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org, Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net> |
| Subject: | Re: Do we really want to migrate plproxy and citext into PG core distribution? |
| Date: | 2008-07-29 19:12:45 |
| Message-ID: | 488F6BAD.2000708@sun.com |
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Tom Lane napsal(a):
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> Obviously the solution should involve a new column in pg_type and
> a new type property in CREATE TYPE, but what should the representation
> be? A full-on approach would make the type categories be real SQL
> objects with their own system catalog and reference them by OID,
> but I can't help thinking that that's overkill.
>
> Anyway, debating that is probably material for a separate thread ...
The collation support also needs to determine which data type is text/string.
Zdenek
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