On Wed, May 4, 2011 at 5:58 PM, Alvaro Herrera <alvhe...@alvh.no-ip.org> wrote:
> A customer came to us with this request: a way to store "any" data in a > column. We've gone back and forth trying to determine reasonable > implementation restrictions, safety and useful semantics for them. > I note that this has been requested in the past: > http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-general/2004-02/msg01266.php I think its a reasonably common use case. Would it be possible to do this with a "typed" hstore? Seems easier to add something there than it would be to add the VARIANT type as discussed here. > both Oracle and MS-SQL have it Do they? What types are they called? -- Simon Riggs http://www.2ndQuadrant.com/ PostgreSQL Development, 24x7 Support, Training & Services -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
