Re: pg_type.h regression?

From: "Greg Sabino Mullane" <greg(at)turnstep(dot)com>
To: pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: pg_type.h regression?
Date: 2008-09-23 15:34:19
Message-ID: ddb5e3d1c7a44487307ac9e863e5fefe@biglumber.com
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> Well, plan B is that we could redefine things as "all array types should
> have typdelim equal to their base type's typdelim". The backend still
> wouldn't care, but if there are other clients out there confusing the
> two, maybe this is important to worry about.

+1

> DefineType currently always sets the array's typdelim to ',', so I
> figured that the built-in types should match that. But we could
> easily change both of them to do the other. Thoughts?

I'd slightly lean towards keeping it the way it has been (semicolon in both),
since it doesn't matter to the backend, and who knows what else it may break.
Kind of silly to spend too many cycles on this, of course, as it's
really only "box" at the moment that uses a non-standard delimiter. :)

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