Re: Refactoring the Type System - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Andrew Dunstan
Subject Re: Refactoring the Type System
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Msg-id 4CDD7352.9030507@dunslane.net
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In response to Refactoring the Type System  (David Fetter <david@fetter.org>)
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Re: Refactoring the Type System
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On 11/12/2010 11:34 AM, David Fetter wrote:
> Folks,
>
> For the past couple of years, I've been hearing from the PostGIS
> people among others that our type system just isn't flexible enough
> for their needs.  It's really starting to show its age, or possibly
> design compromises that seemed reasonable a decade or more ago, but
> are less so now.

This is so general as to be quite meaningless to me. What is it that is 
wanted that we don't have. (And don't say "flexibility", that's way too 
general - say something much more concrete and specific. If you want 
flexibility we can store everything as text, but I doubt you'll like the 
result.)

cheers

andrew


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