On Tue, Mar 21, 2006 at 02:00:14PM -0500, Gregory Maxwell wrote: > On 3/21/06, Jim C. Nasby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > ISTM that having a currency type is pretty common for most databases; I > > don't really see any reason not to just include it. Likewise for a type > > that actually stores timezone info with a timestamp. > > This really should be generalized to work with all the base types > because there are strong use cases for each. (timezones with > timestamps, currencies with numeric, physical units with floats and > ints)
Have you looked at the code? It *is* generalised. All you need to do is provide a table of tags and indicate the base-type. Hence: currency type = table of currencies + numeric base type timestamp+zone type = table of timezones + timestamp base type physical unit = table of units + numeric base type These are examples already included in the code, but I'm sure people can come up with more. Have a nice day, -- Martijn van Oosterhout <kleptog@svana.org> http://svana.org/kleptog/ > Patent. n. Genius is 5% inspiration and 95% perspiration. A patent is a > tool for doing 5% of the work and then sitting around waiting for someone > else to do the other 95% so you can sue them.
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