Re: pgsql-server: Make the world very nearly safe for composite-type - Mailing list pgsql-committers

Tom Lane wrote:
> Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us> writes:
> > Does this complete this TODO item?
> >     * Support composite types as table columns
>
> Was "we surely cannot ship them like this" not clear enough?
>
> >> If you dike out the preventive check in CheckAttributeType(),
> >> composite-type columns now seem to actually work.  However, we surely
> >> cannot ship them like this --- without I/O for composite types, you
> >> can't get pg_dump to dump tables containing them.  So a little more
> >> work still to do.

My question is whether we are getting closer to completing this item.

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