Re: create type question

On Mon, 12 May 2003, John DeSoi wrote:

> I would like to create a new column type that just holds a text string
> (a lisp form). My only reason for creating a type is so that I can
> distinguish this field type from text fields and perform some extended
> processing when they are read by the client.
>
> Below is my first (newbie) attempt. Do I really have to do write
> something in C to accomplish this? Is there any kind of type "alias"
> feature?

You might just want to make a domain, something like:
create domain lisp as text;