Re: [HACKERS] Is "CREATE DOMAIN" in 6.3 ?? - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From The Hermit Hacker
Subject Re: [HACKERS] Is "CREATE DOMAIN" in 6.3 ??
Date
Msg-id Pine.BSF.3.96.980228160849.230j-100000@thelab.hub.org
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In response to Is "CREATE DOMAIN" in 6.3 ??  (al dev <aldevpgsql@yahoo.com>)
Responses Re: [QUESTIONS] Re: [HACKERS] Is "CREATE DOMAIN" in 6.3 ??  (Herouth Maoz <herouth@oumail.openu.ac.il>)
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On Sat, 28 Feb 1998, al dev wrote:

> Hi:
> Is create domain command implemented in 6.3??
> I am trying to use
>   create domain employed as char(10)
>   check (
> value = "YES" or
> value = "NO" or
> value = "RETIRED" or
> value = "DISABLED" or
> value is NULL
> );
> in SQL scripts but is failing in 6.2.1 postgresql.
>
> I can find work around BUT there are tons of create domains in my SQL
> scripts and will be very tedious.
> By the way, create domain is in defined in SQL 92
> see this chapter 42 in
> http://sunsite.unc.edu/LDP/HOWTO/Database-HOWTO.html

    I took a look here, and it didn't say (at least not in chapter
42)...what exactly does 'create domain' do?  We don't, and won't, have it
for v6.3, not with a release in a few days, and since I do recall anyone
else having mentioned it before, it isn't on our TODO list, but sounds
like something else to be added...

    But, a short description of what it does would be nice, as I've
never heard of that one before :)

Marc G. Fournier
Systems Administrator @ hub.org
primary: scrappy@hub.org           secondary: scrappy@{freebsd|postgresql}.org


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