This looks very interesting. Should we add it to the core
distribution?
Excellent question. As yet I have received very little feedback on it,
though it does work as advertised. I have had some people complain
that
while they'd like to use it (especially the timestamp-that-remembers-
the-timezone), they don't like the idea of an external module.
I suppose the are a few technical issues that could be raised, like
the
fact that it searches user tables during the parse phase, but this
is a
generic problem with non-immutable type input functions.
I'd like it to be considered for inclusion. If the interest is there I
can make any changes people suggest.
There was an old thread on the list about "extended type".
The general idea was to add a attribute to each column to represent
the "unit" (as for physical measure).
I had worked on a development system that use this kind of "extended
type" and it was very good to catch errors by checking the
compatibility of extended type.
Cordialement,
Jean-Gérard Pailloncy
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