Re: User-defined typle similar to char(length) varchar(length)

Martijn van Oosterhout <kleptog@svana.org> writes:
> <snip more problems>

> No kidding, it's quite a mess and really needs to be cleaned up. About
> the only thing we could do would be to merge the productions for types
> and functions. Or at least, make the productions look similar enough
> that bison can avoid deciding which it is until it's got past the whole
> definition.

Yeah.  There are previous discussions about this in the archives.
What we've got now is the best idea that anyone had back in the 7.3
or so timeframe ... but feel free to improve it if you can.
        regards, tom lane