Re: Domain Support -- another round

From: Fernando Nasser <fnasser(at)redhat(dot)com>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: Rod Taylor <rbt(at)zort(dot)ca>, Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>, pgsql-patches(at)postgresql(dot)org, Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>
Subject: Re: Domain Support -- another round
Date: 2002-03-20 20:58:30
Message-ID: 3C98F7F6.29FE1248@redhat.com
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Tom Lane wrote:
>
> 2. Arrays. I don't much care for the fact that arrays of domain-type
> values aren't supported. The handling of domains that are themselves
> arrays seems a tad odd as well: the array-ish nature of the domain is
> exposed, which doesn't make a lot of sense to me. Perhaps we'd be
> better off to forbid array domains.
>

From SQL99 11.23 Syntax Rule 6)

"<data type> should not specify a reference type, user-defined type,
or an array type."
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