From: Bruno Wolff III <bruno@wolff.to>
To: Sean Davis <sdavis2@mail.nih.gov>
Cc: Achilleus Mantzios <achill@matrix.gatewaynet.com>
Cc: Veikko Mäkinen <veikko.makinen@ecom.fi>
Cc: pgsql-sql@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: Alias to a type
Date: Wed, 22 Jun 2005 07:18:06 -0500
Message-ID: <20050622121806.GA27654@wolff.to> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <af9f545f8a3ab4a09d90b2d589443a49@mail.nih.gov>
References: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0506221440440.4771-100000@matrix.gatewaynet.com>
<af9f545f8a3ab4a09d90b2d589443a49@mail.nih.gov>
On Wed, Jun 22, 2005 at 08:04:39 -0400,
Sean Davis <sdavis2@mail.nih.gov> wrote:
>
>
> Just for my own edification, does creating a "simple" domain like this
> then require a whole set of functions for indexing, etc., like other
> more complex user-defined types, or will postgres "do the right thing"?
No, the underlying type's class is still used. You don't need to create
new comparison or type conversion functions.
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