On Nov 15, 2013, at 12:37 PM, Andrew Dunstan <and...@dunslane.net> wrote:

> It's making my head hurt, to be honest, and it sounds like a recipe for years 
> and years of inconsistencies and bugs.
> 
> I don't want to have two types, but I think I'd probably rather have two 
> clean types than this. I can't imagine it being remotely acceptable to have 
> behaviour depend in whether or not something was ever stored, which is what 
> this looks like.

I disklike having two types (no, three -- there is hstore, too!). But if there 
is consensus for it (and I am not at all convinced that there is at this 
point), I can live with it. Docs would have to be pretty explicit, though.

David



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