From: Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us>
To: Josh Berkus <josh@agliodbs.com>
Cc: Greg Patnude <gpatnude@hotmail.com>
Cc: pgsql-sql@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: User defined types -- Social Security number...
Date: Sat, 28 Feb 2004 11:18:53 -0500 (EST)
Message-ID: <200402281618.i1SGIrp28893@candle.pha.pa.us> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200402221132.50311.josh@agliodbs.com>
Josh Berkus wrote:
> 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.
Actually I know someone who's SSN starts as 003.
Agreed on the DOMAIN suggestion.
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