From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: Andreas Pflug <Andreas.Pflug@web.de>
Cc: pgsql-odbc@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: using domain types with ODBC, esp. lo
Date: Fri, 21 Mar 2003 11:31:52 -0500
Message-ID: <13532.1048264312@sss.pgh.pa.us> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3E7B3BA7.20709@web.de>
References: <3E7B3BA7.20709@web.de>
Andreas Pflug <Andreas.Pflug@web.de> writes:
> The well-known data types PG_TYPE_DATETIME, PG_TYPE_TIMESTAMP_NO_TMZONE,
> PG_TYPE_TIME, PT_TYPE_TIME_WITH_TMZONE are handled in a special way
> concerning the atttypmod field. This will fail for domain types of that
> base type.
This is correct, since the domain won't expose the atttypmod it assigns
to the underlying type.
> Actually, best thing for this problems would be if the backend would
> deliver the base type oid, not the user type oid.
There was some discussion of that idea in pgsql-hackers last week, but
we didn't come to a definite conclusion. How do others feel about it?
regards, tom lane
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