| From: | Heikki Linnakangas <heikki(dot)linnakangas(at)enterprisedb(dot)com> |
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| To: | Jeff Davis <pgsql(at)j-davis(dot)com> |
| Cc: | Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>, Itagaki Takahiro <itagaki(dot)takahiro(at)oss(dot)ntt(dot)co(dot)jp>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: Syntax for partitioning |
| Date: | 2009-10-30 17:12:11 |
| Message-ID: | 4AEB1E6B.5030000@enterprisedb.com |
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Jeff Davis wrote:
> On Fri, 2009-10-30 at 10:03 +0200, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
>> I can't help but wonder if the period type might better be a generic
>> container for pairs of scalar, totally-ordered types.
>
> That would be ideal. However, it doesn't really look like our type
> system was built to handle that kind of thing.
>
> We could use typmod, I suppose, but even that won't hold a full Oid. Any
> ideas/suggestions?
Wait, it doesn't? A typmod is a 32-bit integer, like Oids. Am I missing
something?
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Heikki Linnakangas
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