"Ron Mayer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> I have a system with many essentially user-defined fields, and was
> thinking of creating something similar to an Array type and writing
> some GIST indexes for it.
>
> My current workaround is to store them as a YAML document and use
> tsearch to index it (with application logic to further refine the
> results) - but a EAV datatype that could be put in tables and
> effectively indexed would be of quite a bit of interest here.
> And yes, a better say to do UDFs would be even cooler.

I think that's what hstore does. Honestly I'm not entirely certain though.

-- 
  Gregory Stark
  EnterpriseDB          http://www.enterprisedb.com

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