From: Josh Berkus <josh@agliodbs.com>
To: Greg Patnude <gpatnude@hotmail.com>
To: pgsql-sql@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: User defined types -- Social Security number...
Date: Sun, 22 Feb 2004 11:32:50 -0800
Message-ID: <200402221132.50311.josh@agliodbs.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <c16fu8$2ro4$1@news.hub.org>
References: <c16fu8$2ro4$1@news.hub.org>
Greg,
> Anyone have a good pre-built user-defined type definition for creating /
> maintaining / manipulating a SSN ... where valid chars are in the range
> 000-00-0000 through 999-99-9999.
Actually, the range is more narrowly defined than that. I'm not sure of the
exact rules, but you will never see a leading 0 or a -00- in an SSN.
> I imagine that the storage column is probably varchar(11) -- I am looking
> for a type definition that
Use DOMAINs, not a custom type. It's less work.
> Either that or the question is: How can I coerce postgreSQL into using an
> input / output "mask"...
After you've created your DOMAIN, based on the TEXT type, you can overload the
input and output functions to format correctly. Beware, though: input &
output functions pretty much have to be written in C.
--
Josh Berkus
Aglio Database Solutions
San Francisco
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