Re: composite types in 7.3

> Not at the moment. In fact, as of current (meaning by the time beta3 is
> packaged up, if it's not already this way in beta2) cvs you'll get:
>
> test=# create type mytype as (a int, b text);
> CREATE TYPE
> test=# create table mytable(x mytype,y int);
> ERROR:  Attribute "x" has composite type mytype
>
> There have been brief discussions of allowing composite types as table
> column data types in some future release, but nothing serious yet.

I don't have any particular need for that feature, but I found it interesting.
I imagine that if the feature did exist like that, it would require a lot of
extra syntax for the queries.

Thanks,
    Jeff