On Mon, Oct 18, 2010 at 3:33 PM, Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net> wrote:
> On mån, 2010-10-18 at 11:41 +0100, Mark Cave-Ayland wrote:
>> Paul Ramsey wrote:
>>
>> >> So what kind of data structure would you like for a typmod?
>> >
>> > I'm a primitive enough beast that just having 64-bits would make me
>> > happy. As a general matter though, a bytea?
>> >
>> > P
>>
>> For my vote, I'd prefer either the Oid of a custom type or an array of
>> Oid, Datum pairs - i.e. something we can extend in the future if required.
>
> I think if we really wanted to design this generally, we'd give a type
> function arguments. So, numeric would get (int default = 0, int default
> = 0). That can easily get very complicated, of course.
>
> In any case, for the shorter term, it's clear that refactoring the
> passing around of type + typmod would help this endeavor, so I'm going
> to give it a try.
By "this endeavor" do you mean KNNGIST, or per-column collation?
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