Takahiro Itagaki <itagaki.takahiro@oss.ntt.co.jp> writes:
> Domains were created successfully, but I cannot use type modifiers for them.
> =# CREATE TABLE tbl (v varchar2(10));
> ERROR: type modifier is not allowed for type "varchar2"
> What reason do we have not to inherit typmodin/typmodout from the base type?
Because the domain is supposed to be opaque as to exactly what its
underlying type is. In particular, you're supposed to do this:
CREATE DOMAIN varchar2 AS pg_catalog.varchar(10);
If you look in the SQL spec you will not find any suggestion that it
should work the way you propose.
regards, tom lane