Re: Syntax for partitioning - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Heikki Linnakangas
Subject Re: Syntax for partitioning
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In response to Re: Syntax for partitioning  (Jeff Davis <pgsql@j-davis.com>)
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Jeff Davis wrote:
> On Fri, 2009-10-30 at 10:03 +0200, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
>> I can't help but wonder if the period type might better be a generic
>> container for pairs of scalar, totally-ordered types.
> 
> That would be ideal. However, it doesn't really look like our type
> system was built to handle that kind of thing.
> 
> We could use typmod, I suppose, but even that won't hold a full Oid. Any
> ideas/suggestions?

Wait, it doesn't? A typmod is a 32-bit integer, like Oids. Am I missing
something?

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