On Apr 5, 2006, at 12:15 PM, Merlin Moncure wrote:
On 4/5/06, Clive Page <cgp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Since I discovered the facilities in Postgres for providing and
listing
column descrptions, I have found them very useful, especially for
adding a
string showing physical units to my columns.
Have you considered using domains for these types? You can comment
the domain appropriately. While the domain description will not show
in \d+. to get the description you can do \dT on the domain.
Based on your background I also think you might appreciate domains
from a design perspective. There are a couple of disadvantages to
using them so I'd suggest reading about them.
I seem to recall some astronomer having created some custom types for
storing astronomical data in PostgreSQL. Or perhaps he was using
PostGIS. I know that other astronomers are using PostgreSQL/PostGIS
so if you look around you might be able to save yourself quite a bit
of work.
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