Andres Freund <and...@2ndquadrant.com> writes: > Does anybody have an opinion about introducing generic pseudotype IO > functions?
Yes: -1. > Pseudotype.c/pg_proc.h are slowly growing a number of pretty > useless/redundant copy&pasted functions... Most for cases that are > pretty damn unlikely to be hit by users not knowing what they do. That's hardly the largest cost associated with inventing a new pseudotype. Nor are there lots of new pseudotypes coming down the pike, anyway. > What about adding a pseudotype_in/out that just error out with a generic > message? This will break some of the function sanity checks in opr_sanity, I believe. Yeah, we could lobotomize that, but I don't see any benefit. regards, tom lane -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers