Gregory Stark <stark@enterprisedb.com> writes:
> "Tom Lane" <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> writes:
>> Unless you're going to allow them to create new C functions, I'm not
>> clear on how much they're going to be able to change the semantics.
> Well there's plenty that can be done just using text or bytea as
> representations. citext, or uuid for example.
For the sort of look-ma-no-C programming that you seem to be
envisioning, I don't think that real base types are appropriate at all.
What might make sense is to handle it as a domain over some
suitably-generic base type. The thing we'd have to fix to make that
work is the way that the ambiguous-function resolution rules
discriminate against functions that're declared to take domains.
Which is hard, but it seems a lot less likely to lead to weird
security risks than letting untrusted users mess with the details
of base-type operations.
Elein was going to go off in a corner and think about how to make that
work better, but I dunno if she's gotten anywhere yet.
regards, tom lane
