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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.