Re: ISN was: Core Extensions relocation

Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>

From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: Peter Geoghegan <peter@2ndquadrant.com>
Cc: Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>, Josh Berkus <josh@agliodbs.com>, pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org
Date: 2011-11-16T03:40:49Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers

Commits

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  1. Updates to contrib/isn ISBN tables.

  2. Add a "LIKE = typename" clause to CREATE TYPE for base types. This allows

Peter Geoghegan <peter@2ndquadrant.com> writes:
> If we can't put isn out of its misery, a sensible compromise would be
> to rip out the prefix enforcement feature so that, for example, ISBN13
> behaved exactly the same as EAN13.

That might be a reasonable compromise.  Certainly the check-digit
calculation is much more useful for validity checking than the prefix
checking.

			regards, tom lane