Re: pulling libpqtypes from queue - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From tomas@tuxteam.de
Subject Re: pulling libpqtypes from queue
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Msg-id 20080416064854.GA16338@www.trapp.net
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In response to Re: pulling libpqtypes from queue  ("Merlin Moncure" <mmoncure@gmail.com>)
Responses Re: pulling libpqtypes from queue  (Andrew Chernow <ac@esilo.com>)
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On Tue, Apr 15, 2008 at 10:57:37AM -0400, Merlin Moncure wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 15, 2008 at 10:48 AM,  <tomas@tuxteam.de> wrote:
> >  On Tue, Apr 15, 2008 at 09:48:37AM -0400, Merlin Moncure wrote:
> >  > On Tue, Apr 15, 2008 at 9:36 AM, Alvaro Herrera
> >  > <alvherre@commandprompt.com> wrote:
> >
> >  > >  I expect you intend to get at least the hooks in, right?

[...]

> libpqtypes was designed to handle this with our without hooking. (the
> 'hooking' debate was mainly about exactly how libpq and libpqtypes was
> going to be separated).
> 
> libpqtypes had a superclassing concept (not much discussed on the
> lists) where you could introduce new type handlers that wrapped
> existing ones and was desgined exactly for things like this.

That sounds cool. So in a way you do have the hooks. That would be the
libpqtypes without the types, no?

>                                         keep an
> eye on our upcoming pgfoundry project.

I sure will.

Thanks
- -- tomás
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