Re: Composite type: Primary Key and validation

From: Merlin Moncure <mmoncure(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: Laurenz Albe <laurenz(dot)albe(at)cybertec(dot)at>
Cc: Lorusso Domenico <domenico(dot)l76(at)gmail(dot)com>, pgsql-general(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Composite type: Primary Key and validation
Date: 2023-06-05 17:41:59
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On Mon, Jun 5, 2023 at 12:08 PM Laurenz Albe <laurenz(dot)albe(at)cybertec(dot)at>
wrote:

> On Mon, 2023-06-05 at 17:06 +0200, Lorusso Domenico wrote:
> > A composite type is useful because I've to add all these information on
> many tables and because
> > it more easy to pass all these informations to functions that have to
> ensure the right format and evaluation.
> >
> > Talking about first point I could use the "table inheritance", but I've
> to reset all constraints for each table :-(
>
> Inheritance is actually a very good way to do this.
> You don't inherit constraints, but at least the column definitions.

Agreed on not using composite type.

Another suggestion, this might be a good idea for range type.

merlin

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