Re: Rethinking user-defined-typmod before it's too late

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Stephen Frost <sfrost(at)snowman(dot)net>
Cc: pgsql-hackers(at)postgreSQL(dot)org
Subject: Re: Rethinking user-defined-typmod before it's too late
Date: 2007-06-15 17:32:02
Message-ID: 6303.1181928722@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Stephen Frost <sfrost(at)snowman(dot)net> writes:
> Would this allow for 'multi-value' typmods for user-defined types?

If you can squeeze them into 31 bits of stored typmod, yes. That
may mean that you still need the side table (with stored typmod being a
lookup key for the table). But this gets you out of exposing that
detail to users.

regards, tom lane

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