On 9 Oct 2002 at 10:00, Manfred Koizar wrote: > On Mon, 07 Oct 2002 15:07:29 +0530, "Shridhar Daithankar" > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >Only worry is database size. Postgresql is 111GB v/s 87 GB for mysql. > > Shridhar, > > here is an implementation of a set of user types: char3, char4, > char10. Put the attached files into a new directory contrib/fixchar, > make, make install, and run fixchar.sql through psql. Then create > your table as
I had a quick look in things. I think it's a great learning material for pg internals..;-) I have a suggestion. In README, it should be worth mentioning that, new types can be added just by changin Makefile. e.g. Changing line OBJS = char3.o char4.o char10.o to OBJS = char3.o char4.o char5.o char10.o would add the datatype char5 as well. Obviously this is for those who might not take efforts to read the source. ( Personally I wouldn't have, had it been part of entire postgres source dump. Just would have done ./configure;make;make install) Thanks for the solution. It wouldn't have occurred to me in ages to create a type for this. I guess that's partly because never used postgresql beyond select/insert/update/delete. Anyway should have been awake.. Thanks once again Bye Shridhar -- But it's real. And if it's real it can be affected ... we may not be ableto break it, but, I'll bet you credits to Navy Beans we can put a dent in it. -- deSalle, "Catspaw", stardate 3018.2 ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 6: Have you searched our list archives? http://archives.postgresql.org
