Andrew Dunstan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > In connection with completing David Fetter's array of composites patch, > I am looking at doing some better name mangling for array types as > recently discussed. What I'm thinking of is prepending one or more > underscores to the type name up to some limit (NAMEDATALEN / 2 ?) and if > necessary truncating the result, and then looking to see if there is a > name clash. That would, I hope, enable us to get rid of all the places > where we require names to be no more than NAMEDATALEN - 2 chars. Does > that seem like a reasonable approach? Will it break anything, i.e., is > there somewhere that has assumes the array type for foo will be called > _foo rather than ___foo ?
makeArrayTypeName and users thereof. Or are you going to extend pg_type to have a direct link? regards, tom lane ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 7: You can help support the PostgreSQL project by donating at http://www.postgresql.org/about/donate