Re: Proposal: CREATE CONVERSION

From: Tatsuo Ishii <t-ishii(at)sra(dot)co(dot)jp>
To: tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us
Cc: pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Proposal: CREATE CONVERSION
Date: 2002-07-06 23:14:08
Message-ID: 20020707.081408.07622208.t-ishii@sra.co.jp
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> Tatsuo Ishii <t-ishii(at)sra(dot)co(dot)jp> writes:
> > I am worried about that too. But if we stick a C-level API, how can we
> > define the argument data type suitable for C string? I don't see such
> > data types. Maybe you are suggesting that we should not use CREATE
> > FUNCTION?
>
> Well, you'd have to use the same cheat that's used for selectivity
> estimation functions, triggers, I/O functions and everything else that
> deals in internal datatypes: declare the function as taking and
> returning OPAQUE. This is moderately annoying but I don't think
> there's anything really wrong with it in practice.

Oh, I see.
--
Tatsuo Ishii

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