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 -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers