Re: C function question - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Tom Lane
Subject Re: C function question
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Msg-id 17345.1233702975@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to Re: C function question  (Merlin Moncure <mmoncure@gmail.com>)
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Merlin Moncure <mmoncure@gmail.com> writes:
> On Tue, Feb 3, 2009 at 4:28 PM, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
>> You know, maybe we should stop holding our noses and do something about
>> this old gotcha.  That type's not going away anytime soon, but could we
>> rename it to char1 or something like that?  (With some sort of backward
>> compatibility hack, like a domain named "char".)

> domains are out, unless arrays of domains are addressed first.

[ raised eyebrow... ]  You've got apps that depend on array of "char"?

            regards, tom lane

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