Brook Milligan wrote:
>
> But I think that hyperlinks would be a good addition to data types
> repertoire to pgsql.
>
> And how would the behavior of such a datatype differ from, for
> example, a text datatype? My interpretation would be that if the
> consumer of the data wants to display it as a hyperlink, fine, but
> that that is the job of the application not the database. Am I
> missing something?
there are a bunch of data types like this that might be interesting to
some people. some of the reasons that you might want a data type like
this are verification that a URL is valid and the ability to search the
URL's by hostname, protocol, etc. i can't say that i'd be that
interested in it, but that shouldn't stop somebody from thinking about
doing something like this.
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Jeff Hoffmann
PropertyKey.com