What's the benefit (or usage scenario) of a "typed table"?

[Thomas Kellerer <spam_eater@xxxxxxx>]

I recently stumbled over "typed tables" in Postgres
(there were several questions containing this on stackoverflow recently)

    create type some_type as (id integer, data text);
    create table some_table of some_type;

I wonder what the benefit of a typed table is and when this would be useful?


Regards
Thomas
 



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