On Friday 28 November 2008 22:02:52 Tom Lane wrote:
> I had a better but more invasive idea: invent a new attribute for
> CREATE TYPE
>
> LIKE = typename
>
> which means "copy any unspecified representational details from the
> given pre-existing type". This would allow the .sql file to k
Greg Stark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I was going to say something like that but couldn't come up with a
> nice syntax. The syntax you gave seems obvious in retrospect.
Here's a draft patch for this. It actually works out pretty well --
the bulk of the diff is just to allow processing the CR
I was going to say something like that but couldn't come up with a
nice syntax. The syntax you gave seems obvious in retrospect.
I wonder if this should be tied in some way with creating binary-
compatible casts or anything. Probably not since the data type can
just make them itself.
greg
I wrote:
> The problem reported by Rushabh Lathia boils down to the fact that
> contrib/isn intends to define a datatype that is represented "just like
> int8", but it supposes that int8 must be pass by reference. There is
> not anything wrong with the C code; the problem is the CREATE TYPE
> comm
The problem reported by Rushabh Lathia boils down to the fact that
contrib/isn intends to define a datatype that is represented "just like
int8", but it supposes that int8 must be pass by reference. There is
not anything wrong with the C code; the problem is the CREATE TYPE
command in isn.sql. To
