Hello, How would one go about creating a US telephone type in the format of "(555)-555-5555" ? I am at a loss on how it could be accomplished in the most correct way possible while not going into the various different country styles e.g. +01 (555) 555-5555. Is the difficulty of creating a telephone type the reason it is not in postgresql already? Should the telephone type be able to do something such as: SELECT * from tableFOO where telephone.areacode = 555; Or would regex be better? regards,