Re: Proposal: stand-alone composite types
lockhart@fourpalms.org
From: Thomas Lockhart <lockhart@fourpalms.org>
To: Joe Conway <mail@joeconway.com>
Cc: Rod Taylor <rbt@zort.ca>, Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>, pgsql-hackers <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2002-08-10T00:26:30Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
> That's what I was thinking. In cases where you want to use the type for
> several functions, use CREATE TYPE. If you only need the type for one
> function, let the function creation process manage it for you.
It would be nice then to have some mechanism for converting the
"automatic type" to a named type which could be used elsewhere.
Otherwise one would need to garbage collect the separate stuff later,
which would probably go into the "not so convenient" category of
features...
- Thomas