| From: | "David E(dot) Wheeler" <david(at)kineticode(dot)com> |
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| To: | Martijn van Oosterhout <kleptog(at)svana(dot)org> |
| Cc: | Kless <jonas(dot)esp(at)googlemail(dot)com>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: Fwd: Proposal - UUID data type |
| Date: | 2008-07-14 17:33:21 |
| Message-ID: | 75261EA5-5B1E-4355-BE92-E750CDF9EE6F@kineticode.com |
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On Jul 14, 2008, at 01:34, Martijn van Oosterhout wrote:
>> I am not in favor of adding more database-specific types to ANY
>> database
>> - and I think PostGres doing it was a mistake.
>
> So you think that adding full text indexing, gist/gin indexes, text,
> geometric types should have waited until the SQL standard specified
> them? With that kind of thinking we'd still be in the database stone
> age.
Besides which, I seriously doubt that the SQL standard limits data
types.
Best,
David
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