Excerpts from Magnus Hagander's message of mar dic 28 10:46:31 -0300 2010: > On Tue, Dec 28, 2010 at 14:39, Robert Haas <[email protected]> wrote:
> >> What's the best way of doing it? Should we have a function that takes > >> text as input, or should the functions in question be made to return a > >> new datatype that could then be casted? > > > > The new datatype seems more elegant, but a conversion function would > > be a lot less work. > > Well, yeah, that was obvious ;) The question is, how much do we prefer > the more elegant method? ;) If we go the new type route, do we need it to have an implicit cast to text, for backwards compatibility? -- Álvaro Herrera <[email protected]> The PostgreSQL Company - Command Prompt, Inc. PostgreSQL Replication, Consulting, Custom Development, 24x7 support -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list ([email protected]) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
