Re: Dyamic updates of NEW with pl/pgsql

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Merlin Moncure <mmoncure(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net>, Pavel Stehule <pavel(dot)stehule(at)gmail(dot)com>, David Fetter <david(at)fetter(dot)org>, depesz(at)depesz(dot)com, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Dyamic updates of NEW with pl/pgsql
Date: 2010-03-13 16:59:02
Message-ID: 3064.1268499542@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Merlin Moncure <mmoncure(at)gmail(dot)com> writes:
> On Sat, Mar 13, 2010 at 11:40 AM, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
>> (This will also be my main objection to letting hstore into core.
>> It has not solved the problem of handling real datatypes.)

> Is this problem solvable then?

I don't know, but hstore hasn't even tried. We should be very slow
to institutionalize a "smash everything to text" approach in core.

regards, tom lane

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