On Wednesday 2006-03-22 08:53, William ZHANG wrote:
> "Tom Lane" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
> > Timestamps and numerics are definitely in the spec, geometric and
> > network types are definitely not. IIRC, bitstring types are in SQL99
> > but for some reason are deprecated in SQL2003 (if anyone knows t
"Tom Lane" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Timestamps and numerics are definitely in the spec, geometric and
> network types are definitely not. IIRC, bitstring types are in SQL99
> but for some reason are deprecated in SQL2003 (if anyone knows the
> reasoning behind the SQL committee's about-face on that,
On Tue, Mar 21, 2006 at 10:39:03PM -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
> AFAICS, the main part of the type system that isn't modular is the
> support for type parameters (a/k/a typmod), such as the maximum length
> for varchar or the precision/scale for numeric. We could certainly
> invent an API for interpret
"Andrew Dunstan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> ... The real issue is what types and type mechanisms should be in the
> postgresql core distribution. We won't win any thanks from anyone if we
> reduce them. Getting some types right is hard. There is no case that I can
> see for pushing timestamps, n
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Trent Shipley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Without directly addressing the merits of enumerations, enumeration
> interfaces, real currency and time zone types, or whether currency and time
> zone types should be built using enumerations, I would like to ask the
> powers-that-be to seriously con
Trent Shipley said:
> Without directly addressing the merits of enumerations, enumeration
> interfaces, real currency and time zone types, or whether currency and
> time zone types should be built using enumerations, I would like to
> ask the powers-that-be to seriously consider radically modular
