Re: [HACKERS] Re: Status on 7.0

> One reason this hasn't been done is that we would lose the
> (occasional) correspondence between internal names and external names,
> which isn't a very good reason.
> 
> I've also thought that we might implement some "by reference" types to
> replace the "by value" types we have now (and use the SQL92 names for
> them). But Tom Lane has talked about fixing up the internal problems
> we have with passing info about NULLs with "by value" types, so that
> might be a bad way to head. However, the downside to eliminating "by
> value"s (extra footprint?) might be offset by being able to remove
> code which has to handle both cases (extra speed?).

I have added a TODO item:
* add pg_dump option to dump type names as standard ANSI types

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