David Fetter <david@fetter.org> writes:
> On Thu, Apr 14, 2011 at 10:43:16AM -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
>> ... I think a lot of this ultimately
>> traces to the extensible, data-type-agnostic design philosophy. The
>> fact that we don't know what an integer is until we look in pg_type,
>> and don't know what an "=" operator does until we look up its
>> properties, is great from a flexibility point of view; but this sort
>> of query is where the costs become obvious.
> Is it time to revisit that decision?
Umm ... what are you proposing? Toss user-defined data types and
user-defined operators overboard? No interest in that here.
regards, tom lane