Re: knngist - 0.8

From: Paul Ramsey <pramsey(at)cleverelephant(dot)ca>
To: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>, Teodor Sigaev <teodor(at)sigaev(dot)ru>, Oleg Bartunov <oleg(at)sai(dot)msu(dot)su>, Pgsql Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: knngist - 0.8
Date: 2010-10-16 22:13:30
Message-ID: AANLkTimcJ9SdKiXwd-J69DyGvDNOSMyxukJ-Ui8j6Zrm@mail.gmail.com
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On Sat, Oct 16, 2010 at 10:17 AM, Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net> wrote:
> On lör, 2010-10-16 at 09:23 -0700, Paul Ramsey wrote:
>> >>   (And, if we are going to break everything
>> > in sight, now would be a good time to think about changing typmod to
>> > something more flexible than one int32.)
>>
>> As someone who is jamming geometry type, spatial reference number and
>> dimensionality into said 32bit typmod, let me say emphatically ...
>> Amen!
>
> So what kind of data structure would you like for a typmod?

I'm a primitive enough beast that just having 64-bits would make me
happy. As a general matter though, a bytea?

P

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