From: | Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net> |
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To: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
Cc: | pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org, Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us>, David Fetter <david(at)fetter(dot)org> |
Subject: | Re: Macros for typtype (was Re: Arrays of Complex Types) |
Date: | 2007-04-01 07:40:09 |
Message-ID: | 200704010940.10850.peter_e@gmx.net |
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Tom Lane wrote:
> > Why not enums? ;-)
>
> Well, macros is how we do it elsewhere for "char" system columns.
> I'm not sure we could rely on the behavior if we declared
> pg_type.typtype as an enum type ... and if we don't, there's not
> much point.
I was thinking C enums:
enum typtype_type {
TYPTYPE_BASE = 'b',
TYPTYPE_COMPOSITE = 'c',
TYPTYPE_DOMAIN = 'd',
TYPTYPE_ENUM = 'e',
TYPTYPE_PSEUDO = 'p'
};
I'm not sure if this is better.
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Peter Eisentraut
http://developer.postgresql.org/~petere/
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