| From: | decibel <decibel(at)decibel(dot)org> |
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| To: | Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com> |
| Cc: | Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, "David E(dot) Wheeler" <david(at)kineticode(dot)com>, Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>, Pg Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: RfD: more powerful "any" types |
| Date: | 2009-09-09 21:23:40 |
| Message-ID: | 59D3F637-EBD8-4195-837C-7E66A864A789@decibel.org |
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On Sep 9, 2009, at 2:36 PM, Alvaro Herrera wrote:
> Robert Haas escribió:
>
>> Really, I think we need a type system that doesn't try to represent
>> every type as a 32-bit integer. Right now, for example, there's no
>> reasonable way to write a function that takes another function as an
>> argument.
>
> Function references would be neat -- I remember wanting to use these a
> couple of times (map/reduce?)
Yeah, I recall having a want for that as well, though I can't
remember what the use case was now. :/
Though that kind of flexibility is probably the most complete
solution, going with the idea of anyelement(N) might be a lot more
practical...
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