Re: Arrays of Complex Types - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Bruce Momjian
Subject Re: Arrays of Complex Types
Date
Msg-id 200704030028.l330SFp03048@momjian.us
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In response to Re: Arrays of Complex Types  (David Fetter <david@fetter.org>)
Responses Re: Arrays of Complex Types  (Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@commandprompt.com>)
List pgsql-hackers
Your patch has been added to the PostgreSQL unapplied patches list at:

    http://momjian.postgresql.org/cgi-bin/pgpatches

It will be applied as soon as one of the PostgreSQL committers reviews
and approves it.

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David Fetter wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 30, 2007 at 05:08:42PM -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> > David Fetter <david@fetter.org> writes:
> > > After several rounds of patches, it appears that it might be easier to
> > > create a new typtype entry, which I'll tentatively call 'a' because it
> > > seems a little fragile and a lot inelegant and hard to maintain to
> > > have typtype='c' and typrelid=InvalidOid mean, "this is an array of
> > > complex types."
> >
> > Uh, wouldn't it be typtype = 'c' and typelem != 0 ?
>
> Right.  The attached patch passes the current regression tests and at
> least to a "smoke test" level does what it's supposed to do.  I'd
> really like to help refactor the whole array system to use 'a', tho.
>
> Cheers,
> D
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