Tom Lane wrote:
>Martijn van Oosterhout <kleptog@svana.org> writes:
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>>Actually, I'm think this whole automatic creation of a shell-type a bit
>>silly anyway. Why not simply solve the problem directly like so:
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>>CREATE TYPE complex AS SHELL;
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>One of the unwritten consequences of the way that it works now is that
>only superusers can "clutter the catalogs" with shell types.
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I suppose we could restrict this variant to superusers, at least initially.
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>Having said that, I agree that this seems conceptually cleaner, though
>I'm not sure we could ever get rid of the old way because of backward
>compatibility issues.
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They are not mutually exclusive, are they? I too like Martijn's suggestion.
cheers
andrew