Re: User-Defined Datatypes

Philip Reimer wrote:

> Hello.
>
> Is it possible to create new structured datatypes in PostgreSQL like in
> this IBM UDB2 statement:


Hehe, absolutely. AFAIK, Postgres was the first database system
to implement such a feature. IBM got that, I think, through Illustra
via Informix, and guess what Illustra is based on? Postgres of course :-)

See CREATE TYPE for more detail.

-Gunther




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