Re: [HACKERS] GSoC 2017

On 1/13/17 3:09 PM, Peter van Hardenberg wrote:
> A new data type, and/or a new index type could both be nicely scoped
> bits of work.

Did you have any particular data/index types in mind?

Personally I'd love something that worked like a python dictionary, but 
I'm not sure how that'd work without essentially supporting a variant 
data type. I've got code for a variant type[1], and I don't think 
there's any holes in it, but the casting semantics are rather ugly. IIRC 
that problem appeared to be solvable if there was a hook in the current 
casting code right before Postgres threw in the towel and said a cast 
was impossible.

1: https://github.com/BlueTreble/variant/
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