Illustra did a very nice job with "composite types" which
correspond to these record types. The composite types
were able to be used as a column type as jerome describes.
The subcolumns were accessed with dots. This gave usschema.table.column.attribute
where of course attribute could itself be a composite type....
Well, ok, it had some drawbacks, too.
If we ever are serious about implementing this I would help
with discussing and/or writing the specs. I can put together a nice spec.
When I get a break on my book project, I might just write it up anyway.
elein
elein@norcov.com
PS: Everyone please forgive me for reading list mail late and out of order...
I am in awe of anyone keeping up.
On Tuesday 17 September 2002 07:22, Tom Lane wrote:
> "Jerome Chochon" <jerome.chochon@ensma.fr> writes:
> > Can I use this new type like other user-type ?
> > CREATE TABLE person (his_name VARCHAR, his_adress adress);
> > ...where adress is CREATE TYPE adress AS (number int, street text,
> > country VARCHAR);
>
> Not at the moment, though that might be an interesting direction to
> pursue in future releases. At present, the only thing such a type is
> useful for is to define the argument or result type of a function that
> takes or returns records.
>
> regards, tom lane
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