Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@commandprompt.com> writes:
> Excerpts from Magnus Hagander's message of mar dic 28 10:46:31 -0300 2010:
>> Well, yeah, that was obvious ;) The question is, how much do we prefer
>> the more elegant method? ;)
> If we go the new type route, do we need it to have an implicit cast to
> text, for backwards compatibility?
I'd argue not. Probably all existing uses are just selecting the
function value. What comes back to the client will just be the text
form anyway.
I'm of the opinion that a new type isn't worth the work, myself,
but it would mostly be up to whoever was doing the work.
regards, tom lane