Re: Does people favor to have matrix data type? - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Tom Lane
Subject Re: Does people favor to have matrix data type?
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Msg-id 24683.1464185679@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to Re: Does people favor to have matrix data type?  (Kouhei Kaigai <kaigai@ak.jp.nec.com>)
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Kouhei Kaigai <kaigai@ak.jp.nec.com> writes:
> The 'matrix' data type as domain type of real[] is an option to implement.
> We can define operators on the domain types, thus, it allows us to process
> large amount of calculation by one operation, in native binary speed.

Don't go that way, it will cause you nothing but pain.  The ambiguous-
operator resolution rules are not friendly at all to operators with domain
arguments; basically only exact matches will be recognized.
        regards, tom lane



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