Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)alvh(dot)no-ip(dot)org> writes:
> I was just messing around with a datatype that's based in int64
> representation. Pretty much everything (seems to) work cleanly, but one
> problem I have is that I cannot build the correct CREATE TYPE sentence
> in the .sql.in file to actually install the type, because there's no
> easy way to figure out whether float64 (and therefore int64) is passed
> by value or not.
We already solved that for contrib/isn --- use the LIKE clause in CREATE
TYPE.
regards, tom lane