| From: | Martijn van Oosterhout <kleptog(at)svana(dot)org> |
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| To: | Andrew Chernow <ac(at)esilo(dot)com> |
| Cc: | Merlin Moncure <mmoncure(at)gmail(dot)com>, tomas(at)tuxteam(dot)de, Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: pulling libpqtypes from queue |
| Date: | 2008-04-15 15:36:48 |
| Message-ID: | 20080415153648.GD7024@svana.org |
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On Tue, Apr 15, 2008 at 11:24:43AM -0400, Andrew Chernow wrote:
> >libpqtypes had a superclassing concept (not much discussed on the
> >lists) where you could introduce new type handlers that wrapped
> >existing ones and was desgined exactly for things like this. keep an
> >eye on our upcoming pgfoundry project.
> /* register a new type named secure_text. Make it a
> * sub-class of bytea. Subclass means you can extend
> * the behavior of another type.
> */
All I can say is, way cool. Pity you couldn't get the necessary support
but if you can put it up in a way so it can be easily packaged by
distributors that'd be cool. I can think of some projects that could
really benefit from a feature like this.
Have a nice day,
--
Martijn van Oosterhout <kleptog(at)svana(dot)org> http://svana.org/kleptog/
> Please line up in a tree and maintain the heap invariant while
> boarding. Thank you for flying nlogn airlines.
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