Re: Type Categories for User-Defined Types - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

On Jul 30, 2008, at 12:58, Tom Lane wrote:

>> Well, from a user's point of view, they're pretty much just strings
>
> But they're a very restricted set of strings; I can't see that there's
> any general-purpose use for allowing them as the source or destination
> of I/O conversions.

*shrug* Okay, no big deal, I think.

Best,

David