Re: Using incorrect default-value type - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Tom Lane
Subject Re: Using incorrect default-value type
Date
Msg-id 14372.1350356586@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to Re: Using incorrect default-value type  (Arturo Pie Joa <arturotd08@yahoo.ca>)
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Arturo Pie Joa <arturotd08@yahoo.ca> writes:
> Is it ok to do name overloading in postgreSQL? or is that�not�recommended at all? Could I find some issues later by
doingname overloading? 

People use it all the time ... and get burnt some of the time.

> We are doing this because we are using different collations on each schema, and our ORM doesn't support custom
domains,so we are just overloading "text". 

Maybe you need a better ORM.  But it's not clear to me why you'd need
domains for this anyway --- can't you just attach a collation property
to each table column?

            regards, tom lane


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