Re: RfD: more powerful "any" types

From: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com>
To: Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, "David E(dot) Wheeler" <david(at)kineticode(dot)com>, Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>, Pg Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: RfD: more powerful "any" types
Date: 2009-09-09 19:36:06
Message-ID: 20090909193606.GT4132@alvh.no-ip.org
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Robert Haas escribió:

> Really, I think we need a type system that doesn't try to represent
> every type as a 32-bit integer. Right now, for example, there's no
> reasonable way to write a function that takes another function as an
> argument.

Function references would be neat -- I remember wanting to use these a
couple of times (map/reduce?)

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Alvaro Herrera http://www.CommandPrompt.com/
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