"user-defined types" - would that be SQL-standard 'domains'?

Post #64,466 by CRConrad 11/22/02 9:37:28 AM Reply	"user-defined types" - would that be SQL-standard 'domains'? If so, then that (along with roles and views and Idunno what all) is among the many IB/FB features I neglected to mention. As opposed to UDFs, which IIRC I did mention... :-) So what are you saying -- that Larry is collecting a percentage from Seagate, Maxtor, et al? Christian R. Conrad Microsoft is a true reflection of Bill Gates' personality - the sleaziest, most unethical, ugliest little rat's ass the world has seen unto this time. -- [link\|http://z.iwethey.org/forums/render/content/show?contentid=42971\|Andrew Grygus]
Post #64,467 by admin 11/22/02 9:40:59 AM Reply	user-defined types As in, write some external code with save/restore functions, etc., to make your very own new FarbleBanger base type. [link\|http://www.us.postgresql.org/users-lounge/docs/7.2/postgres/xtypes.html\|http://www.us.postgr...tgres/xtypes.html] Regards, -scott anderson "Welcome to Rivendell, Mr. Anderson..."
Post #64,480 by CRConrad 11/22/02 10:51:43 AM Reply	Wow, cool; the FB dev list is only now talking about that... ...kind of thing. Or, OK, they've been mentioning it, on and off, for a bit over a year AFAICR. But it ain't there yet. (Also somewhat reminiscent of how to build TField-descendant object classes, for client-side apps that attach to different kind of DBMSes, in Delphi; those "save/restore functions" are analogous to the getter/setter methods for the AsString property.) Cool to see that PgSql seems to have copied IB's basic "multigenerational" ("multiversion", in Postgres-speak) architecture, too. (Doesn't seem quite consistently pervasive, though.) Yeah yeah, I'll lay off the bashing... If the freaking WORLD lays off the hyping! :-) Christian R. Conrad Microsoft is a true reflection of Bill Gates' personality - the sleaziest, most unethical, ugliest little rat's ass the world has seen unto this time. -- [link\|http://z.iwethey.org/forums/render/content/show?contentid=42971\|Andrew Grygus]
Post #64,481 by admin 11/22/02 11:04:29 AM Reply	Postgres is really a research database For trying out new things. People use it for the real world too, though. :-) Some of the contrib items are pretty nifty as well, like the fulltext indexing I use here. Regards, -scott anderson "Welcome to Rivendell, Mr. Anderson..."

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