Thanks Scott - I'll give this a try.
Bob
----- Original Message -----
From: "Scott Marlowe" <smarlowe@g2switchworks.com>
To: "Bob Pawley" <rjpawley@shaw.ca>
Cc: "Tino Wildenhain" <tino@wildenhain.de>; "Joshua D. Drake"
<jd@commandprompt.com>; "Stephan Szabo" <sszabo@megazone.bigpanda.com>; "Tom
Lane" <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>; "Postgresql" <pgsql-general@postgresql.org>
Sent: Thursday, January 26, 2006 2:35 PM
Subject: Re: [GENERAL] Arrays
>I can't imagine
>
> test=# create type stat1 as (i1 int, i2 int, i3 int, t1 text);
> CREATE TYPE
> test=# create table stest(s1 stat1);
> CREATE TABLE
> test=# insert into stest values ((1,1,1,'t'));
> INSERT 0 1
> test=# select * from stest;
> s1
> -----------
> (1,1,1,t)
> (1 row)
>
> being a big issue. You've got to create the tables, you can create the
> type while you're at it, right?
>
> On Thu, 2006-01-26 at 15:59, Bob Pawley wrote:
>> Our application will be dispersed amongst many users.
>>
>> I want to keep the datbase as generic as possible.
>>
>> Bob
>>
>>
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Tino Wildenhain" <tino@wildenhain.de>
>> To: "Bob Pawley" <rjpawley@shaw.ca>
>> Cc: "Joshua D. Drake" <jd@commandprompt.com>; "Stephan Szabo"
>> <sszabo@megazone.bigpanda.com>; "Tom Lane" <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>;
>> "Postgresql"
>> <pgsql-general@postgresql.org>
>> Sent: Thursday, January 26, 2006 1:09 PM
>> Subject: Re: [GENERAL] Arrays
>>
>>
>> > Bob Pawley schrieb:
>> >> The order for the array is Min, Norm, Max, Unit.
>> >>
>> >> I'll probably reorder it with the unit first as every value has a
>> >> unit.
>> >>
>> >
>> > I'd rather create/use a custom datatype for your needs.
>> > This array stuff seems overly hackish for me.
>> >
>> > Regards
>> > Tino
>> >
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