Re: [PATCHES] Arrays of Complex Types

From: David Fetter <david(at)fetter(dot)org>
To: Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net>
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us>, Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com>, PostgreSQL Patches <pgsql-patches(at)postgresql(dot)org>, PG Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: [PATCHES] Arrays of Complex Types
Date: 2007-05-06 17:47:32
Message-ID: 20070506174732.GC29535@fetter.org
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On Sun, May 06, 2007 at 01:33:47PM -0400, Andrew Dunstan wrote:

> However, there are still some oddities. For example, a change to or
> removal of the base type affects the array type, but the array type
> can be directly operated on (e.g. alter type _aa set schema foo ).
> I'm inclined to say we should prevent direct operations on array
> types, and they should live or die by their parent types.
>
> Thoughts?

+1 on binding the array types tightly to the parent types.

Cheers,
D
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