| From: | "Jonah H(dot) Harris" <jonah(dot)harris(at)gmail(dot)com> |
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| To: | "Tom Lane" <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
| Cc: | "Thomas Hallgren" <thomas(at)tada(dot)se>, "Jim C(dot) Nasby" <jnasby(at)pervasive(dot)com>, "Qingqing Zhou" <zhouqq(at)cs(dot)toronto(dot)edu>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: pg_class catalog question... |
| Date: | 2006-04-02 22:42:29 |
| Message-ID: | 36e682920604021542l5aabbd4cv5e6169c5f0ad754d@mail.gmail.com |
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On 4/2/06, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
> Changing that is not "impossible", but the level of pain vastly exceeds
> what this feature would be worth.
I really like the wording, "the level of pain"... so true :)
> you could create one or more fixed-size datatypes (ie, with various
> positive typlen values). But I don't see a practical way to use a
> typmod in determining the physical width.
Thanks for the suggestion and caution. I hope to look into this when
I get some time in the next month or so. Likewise, I will inform
everyone of my planned implementation after some inspection.
--
Jonah H. Harris, Database Internals Architect
EnterpriseDB Corporation
732.331.1324
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