Re: [HACKERS] atttypmod

Brett McCormick <brett@work.chicken.org>

From: Brett McCormick <brett@work.chicken.org>
To: Bruce Momjian <maillist@candle.pha.pa.us>
Cc: hackers@postgreSQL.org
Date: 1998-02-20T03:09:55Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
How about having output options for types?  I know this can be
implemented with functions and views, but it would be nice to able to
output values in different formats by default (such as datetime =>
seconds since the epoch)

On Thu, 19 February 1998, at 22:04:34, Bruce Momjian wrote:

> > Which functionality is that?
> > 
> > On Thu, 19 February 1998, at 16:48:26, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> > 
> > > Just to let people know, pg_attribute.atttypmod is now passed as the
> > > third parameter to all in and out functions, so it is ready to go for
> > > people who need this functionality.
> > 
> 
> Things like decimal types with defined precision.  decimal(10,2).
> 
> -- 
> Bruce Momjian
> maillist@candle.pha.pa.us