Re: User-Defined Datatypes - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Gunther Schadow
Subject Re: User-Defined Datatypes
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Msg-id 3CBB22CB.1010407@aurora.regenstrief.org
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In response to User-Defined Datatypes  (Philip Reimer <phre@wi.uni-muenster.de>)
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Philip Reimer wrote:

> Hello.
>
> Is it possible to create new structured datatypes in PostgreSQL like in
> this IBM UDB2 statement:


Hehe, absolutely. AFAIK, Postgres was the first database system
to implement such a feature. IBM got that, I think, through Illustra
via Informix, and guess what Illustra is based on? Postgres of course :-)

See CREATE TYPE for more detail.

-Gunther




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