On Mon, Oct 18, 2010 at 11:41:06AM +0100, Mark Cave-Ayland wrote: > Paul Ramsey wrote: > > >>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 > > For my vote, I'd prefer either the Oid of a custom type or an array > of Oid, Datum pairs - i.e. something we can extend in the future if > required.
This sounds a lot like a foreign key to another table. Are you not proposing doing that because of performance considerations? Cheers, David. -- David Fetter <da...@fetter.org> http://fetter.org/ Phone: +1 415 235 3778 AIM: dfetter666 Yahoo!: dfetter Skype: davidfetter XMPP: david.fet...@gmail.com iCal: webcal://www.tripit.com/feed/ical/people/david74/tripit.ics Remember to vote! Consider donating to Postgres: http://www.postgresql.org/about/donate -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
