On Tue, Apr 15, 2008 at 11:24:43AM -0400, Andrew Chernow wrote: > >libpqtypes had a superclassing concept (not much discussed on the > >lists) where you could introduce new type handlers that wrapped > >existing ones and was desgined exactly for things like this. keep an > >eye on our upcoming pgfoundry project. > /* register a new type named secure_text. Make it a > * sub-class of bytea. Subclass means you can extend > * the behavior of another type. > */
All I can say is, way cool. Pity you couldn't get the necessary support but if you can put it up in a way so it can be easily packaged by distributors that'd be cool. I can think of some projects that could really benefit from a feature like this. Have a nice day, -- Martijn van Oosterhout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://svana.org/kleptog/ > Please line up in a tree and maintain the heap invariant while > boarding. Thank you for flying nlogn airlines.
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