Re: VARIANT / ANYTYPE datatype - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Bruce Momjian
Subject Re: VARIANT / ANYTYPE datatype
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Msg-id 201105102021.p4AKLan00814@momjian.us
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In response to Re: VARIANT / ANYTYPE datatype  (Darren Duncan <darren@darrenduncan.net>)
Responses Re: VARIANT / ANYTYPE datatype  (Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@commandprompt.com>)
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Darren Duncan wrote:
> To follow-up, an additional feature that would be useful and resembles union 
> types is the variant where you could declare a union type first and then 
> separately other types could declare they are a member of the union.  I'm 
> talking about loosely what mixins or type-roles or interfaces etc are in other 
> languages.  The most trivial example would be declaring an ENUM-alike first and 
> then separately declaring the component values where the latter declare they are 
> part of the ENUM, and this could make it easier to add or change ENUM values. 
> But keep in mind that this is a distinct concept from what we're otherwise 
> talking about as being union types. -- Darren Duncan

Should this be a TODO item?

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