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.
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