On Fri, Apr 15, 2011 at 3:49 PM, Kevin Grittner <kevin.gritt...@wicourts.gov> wrote: > I haven't seen anything which seems like a reasonable use case yet, > myself. If you were *actually* tracking turtles and their > offspring, that would be a completely worthless data structure. Is > there really a case where a reference to the ID of an object of like > type isn't a better solution?
There are lots of use cases for this. I use composite types to marshal data to the client all the time, and recursive structures are fairly common in many classic problems. Recursive composites fit the bill perfectly. merlin -- Sent via pgsql-bugs mailing list (pgsql-bugs@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-bugs
