Re: Fwd: Proposal - UUID data type - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From David E. Wheeler
Subject Re: Fwd: Proposal - UUID data type
Date
Msg-id 75261EA5-5B1E-4355-BE92-E750CDF9EE6F@kineticode.com
Whole thread Raw
In response to Re: Fwd: Proposal - UUID data type  (Martijn van Oosterhout <kleptog@svana.org>)
List pgsql-hackers
On Jul 14, 2008, at 01:34, Martijn van Oosterhout wrote:

>> I am not in favor of adding more database-specific types to ANY
>> database
>> - and I think PostGres doing it was a mistake.
>
> So you think that adding full text indexing, gist/gin indexes, text,
> geometric types should have waited until the SQL standard specified
> them? With that kind of thinking we'd still be in the database stone
> age.

Besides which, I seriously doubt that the SQL standard limits data  
types.

Best,

David


pgsql-hackers by date:

Previous
From: Gregory Stark
Date:
Subject: Re: [PATCHES] VACUUM Improvements - WIP Patch
Next
From: Tom Lane
Date:
Subject: A note about proargmodes and Pavel's pending patches