Re: exposing float8-as-value to PGXS/makefiles

On May 20, 2011, at 12:51, Alvaro Herrera wrote:

> Excerpts from Tom Lane's message of vie may 20 12:43:25 -0400 2011:
>> Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)alvh(dot)no-ip(dot)org> writes:
>>> I was just messing around with a datatype that's based in int64
>>> representation. Pretty much everything (seems to) work cleanly, but one
>>> problem I have is that I cannot build the correct CREATE TYPE sentence
>>> in the .sql.in file to actually install the type, because there's no
>>> easy way to figure out whether float64 (and therefore int64) is passed
>>> by value or not.
>>
>> We already solved that for contrib/isn --- use the LIKE clause in CREATE
>> TYPE.
>
> Ooh, excellent, thanks.

To confirm, this works for Postgres versions >= 8.4, correct?

Michael Glaesemann
grzm seespotcode net