From: "Shridhar Daithankar" <shridhar_daithankar@persistent.co.in>
To: Manfred Koizar <mkoi-pg@aon.at>, pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org,
	pgsql-general <pgsql-general@postgresql.org>,
	pgsql-performance@postgresql.org
Date: Wed, 09 Oct 2002 13:55:28 +0530
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On 9 Oct 2002 at 10:00, Manfred Koizar wrote:

> On Mon, 07 Oct 2002 15:07:29 +0530, "Shridhar Daithankar"
> <shridhar_daithankar@persistent.co.in> wrote:
> >Only worry is database size. Postgresql is 111GB v/s 87 GB for mysql.
> 
> Shridhar,
> 
> here is an implementation of a set of user types: char3, char4,
> char10.  Put the attached files into a new directory contrib/fixchar,
> make, make install, and run fixchar.sql through psql.  Then create
> your table as

I had a quick look in things. I think it's a great learning material for pg 
internals..;-)

I have a suggestion. In README, it should be worth mentioning that, new types 
can be added just by changin Makefile. e.g. Changing line

OBJS = char3.o char4.o char10.o

to

OBJS = char3.o char4.o char5.o char10.o 

would add the datatype char5 as well. 

Obviously this is for those who might not take efforts to read the source. ( 
Personally I wouldn't have, had it been part of entire postgres source dump. 
Just would have done ./configure;make;make install)

Thanks for the solution. It wouldn't have occurred to me in ages to create a 
type for this. I guess that's partly because never used postgresql beyond 
select/insert/update/delete. Anyway should have been awake..

Thanks once again


Bye
 Shridhar

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