Re: Reducing data type space usage

Tom Lane wrote:
> Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net> writes:
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>> I like this scheme a lot - maximum bang for buck.
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>> Is there any chance we can do it transparently, without exposing new 
>> types? It is in effect an implementation detail ISTM, and ideally the 
>> user would not need to have any knowledge of it.
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> Well, they'd have to be separate types, but the parser handling of them
> would be reasonably transparent I think.  It would work pretty much
> exactly like the way that CHAR(N) maps to "bpchar" now --- is that
> sufficiently well hidden for your taste?
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Yeah, probably. At least to the stage where it's not worth a herculean 
effort to overcome.

cheers

andrew