On Tue, May 10, 2011 at 3:57 PM, Simon Riggs
<simon@2ndquadrant.com> wrote:
I think its a reasonably common use case.
Would it be possible to do this with a "typed" hstore? Seems easier to
add something there than it would be to add the VARIANT type as
discussed here.
> both Oracle and MS-SQL have it
Do they? What types are they called?
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Simon Riggs http://www.2ndQuadrant.com/
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MS SQL Server calls it's variant type 'sql_variant', but it's limited to a subset of the data types they support. Basically, it can store any numeric type, or any binary or text type with a constrained length. No timestamps, geometry, XML, user-defined types, etc. allowed. So it's not really as much of an "any value" type as it might look on the surface. Don't know any details of Oracle's implementation.
-Eric
