Re: RfD: more powerful "any" types - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Alvaro Herrera
Subject Re: RfD: more powerful "any" types
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Msg-id 20090909193606.GT4132@alvh.no-ip.org
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In response to Re: RfD: more powerful "any" types  (Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>)
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Robert Haas escribió:

> Really, I think we need a type system that doesn't try to represent
> every type as a 32-bit integer.  Right now, for example, there's no
> reasonable way to write a function that takes another function as an
> argument.

Function references would be neat -- I remember wanting to use these a
couple of times (map/reduce?)

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