Re: generic builtin functions

Martijn van Oosterhout wrote:

>On Thu, Nov 10, 2005 at 12:02:58PM -0500, Andrew Dunstan wrote:
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>>I am looking at creating a few generic functions builtin for the enum 
>>stuff. These would be tied to each enum type as it is created. However, 
>>they should not really appear in pg_proc initially, as there wouldn't be 
>>any enum types to tie them to anyway. But I want them to have reserved 
>>oids and appear in the list of builtins.
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>Why? What's wrong with creating the functions when people use the
>module, like every other module in contrib? Is there a reason you need
>fixed oids?
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This is not intended for contrib. The whole point of the exercise is to 
have language support, which means either it's builtin or it doesn't 
happen. See my email with a general outline from a few days ago.

cheers

andrew