Re: exposing float8-as-value to PGXS/makefiles

Excerpts from Michael Glaesemann's message of vie may 20 15:07:27 -0400 2011:
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> On May 20, 2011, at 12:51, Alvaro Herrera wrote:
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> > Excerpts from Tom Lane's message of vie may 20 12:43:25 -0400 2011:
> >> 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.
> >
> > Ooh, excellent, thanks.
>
> To confirm, this works for Postgres versions >= 8.4, correct?

Yes, this is in 8.4 (but not in 8.3).

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