On Mon, Oct 25, 2010 at 2:01 PM, Jeff Davis <pg...@j-davis.com> wrote: > On Mon, 2010-10-25 at 12:20 -0500, Kevin Grittner wrote: >> It would be very useful to be able to specify a granularity -- for >> example timestamps with a five minute granularity would be useful >> for scheduling appointments. In some cases the granularity might be >> inferred -- if we have a domain defined as numeric(13,2), it would >> be nice if the default granularity was 0.01::numeric. > > I don't think typmod really helps us much. It's more a property of the > column than the type. > > To specify different granularities, I don't think we can avoid > specifying new types with their own entries in pg_type.
Why? -- Robert Haas EnterpriseDB: http://www.enterprisedb.com The Enterprise PostgreSQL Company -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
