Re: knngist - 0.8

On Mon, Oct 18, 2010 at 11:41:06AM +0100, Mark Cave-Ayland wrote:
> Paul Ramsey wrote:
> 
> >>So what kind of data structure would you like for a typmod?
> >
> >I'm a primitive enough beast that just having 64-bits would make me
> >happy. As a general matter though, a bytea?
> >
> >P
> 
> For my vote, I'd prefer either the Oid of a custom type or an array
> of Oid, Datum pairs - i.e. something we can extend in the future if
> required.

This sounds a lot like a foreign key to another table.  Are you not
proposing doing that because of performance considerations?

Cheers,
David.
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