Re: type info refactoring
Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>
From: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>
To: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Cc: Heikki Linnakangas <heikki.linnakangas@enterprisedb.com>, pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org
Date: 2010-10-31T22:04:24Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
On sön, 2010-10-31 at 13:01 -0400, Tom Lane wrote: > But I'm still wondering whether it's smart to try to promote all of > this fundamentally-auxiliary information to first-class status. It's > really unclear to me that that will end up being a net win either > conceptually or notationally. Fair enough, but this patch arose from the discussion that the collation patch had a lot of hunks that just changed (typeid, typmod) to (typeid, typmod, collation) and that that could be isolated by collecting those into a common data structure. We can abandon this line of thought and I'll go back to my original project, but I thought others who are thinking about improving typmods could also benefit from this work.