Re: exposing float8-as-value to PGXS/makefiles - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Michael Glaesemann
Subject Re: exposing float8-as-value to PGXS/makefiles
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Msg-id 0C9B8B8F-DBDD-4DA7-975A-FE4ECB6B38E3@seespotcode.net
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In response to Re: exposing float8-as-value to PGXS/makefiles  (Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@commandprompt.com>)
Responses Re: exposing float8-as-value to PGXS/makefiles  (Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@commandprompt.com>)
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On May 20, 2011, at 12:51, Alvaro Herrera wrote:

> Excerpts from Tom Lane's message of vie may 20 12:43:25 -0400 2011:
>> Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@alvh.no-ip.org> writes:
>>> I was just messing around with a datatype that's based in int64
>>> representation.  Pretty much everything (seems to) work cleanly, but one
>>> problem I have is that I cannot build the correct CREATE TYPE sentence
>>> in the .sql.in file to actually install the type, because there's no
>>> easy way to figure out whether float64 (and therefore int64) is passed
>>> by value or not.
>> 
>> We already solved that for contrib/isn --- use the LIKE clause in CREATE
>> TYPE.
> 
> Ooh, excellent, thanks.

To confirm, this works for Postgres versions >= 8.4, correct?

Michael Glaesemann
grzm seespotcode net





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