On Tue, Mar 21, 2006 at 06:15:29PM +0100, Pailloncy Jean-Gerard wrote:
> >>This looks very interesting. Should we add it to the core
> >>distribution?
> >
> >Excellent question. As yet I have received very little feedback on it,
> >though it does work as advertised. I have had some people complain
> >that
> >while they'd like to use it (especially the timestamp-that-remembers-
> >the-timezone), they don't like the idea of an external module.
> >
> >I suppose the are a few technical issues that could be raised, like
> >the
> >fact that it searches user tables during the parse phase, but this
> >is a
> >generic problem with non-immutable type input functions.
> >
> >I'd like it to be considered for inclusion. If the interest is there I
> >can make any changes people suggest.
> There was an old thread on the list about "extended type".
>
> The general idea was to add a attribute to each column to represent
> the "unit" (as for physical measure).
>
> I had worked on a development system that use this kind of "extended
> type" and it was very good to catch errors by checking the
> compatibility of extended type.
While I'm not sure it makes sense to include such an 'extended type' in
the base system, it would be a neat project to have on pgFoundry.
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