On Thu, Mar 10, 2011 at 3:54 PM, Merlin Moncure <mmonc...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Thu, Mar 10, 2011 at 3:21 PM, Reece Hart <re...@harts.net> wrote: >> On Wed, Mar 9, 2011 at 9:16 AM, Merlin Moncure <mmonc...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> >>> create type validation_flags as >>> ( >>> cluster bool, >>> freq bool >>> ); >> >> Wow. That solution is nearly sexy, and far and away better than any solution >> that I would have come up with. Thanks, Merlin! > > thanks -- I do what I do. fyi another thing is this only works if no > flags substrings of other flag -- no big deal to add a little guard > against that in the 'in' function though if you need to. > also one pain point with composite types is that you can't flip > specific fields like this: > > update foo set (flags).freq = true;
Actually you *can* do this -- I just didn't know it. update foo set flags.freq = true; will work, so all that extra stuff to do that isn't needed. merlin -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general
