[postgis-devel] Regarding ticket #1939

[Paragon Corporation]

Not harder.  There is a DROP TYPE IF EXISTS (prior to 9.1) but no mechanism
to ALTER is the issue until 9.1+.

The only issue is if people were building functions on top of them
And using the out as an out for their own functions.  We can write that in
as a breaking change.

I suppose if you don't plan to change these we could live with them since
9.1 will probably be the minimal in 2.2 or 2.3
  

-----Original Message-----
From: Sandro Santilli [mailto:sandro.santilli at gmail.com] On Behalf Of Sandro
Santilli
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Subject: Re: [postgis-devel] Regarding ticket #1939

On Fri, Jul 27, 2012 at 01:24:43PM -0700, Bborie Park wrote:
> Hey Regina,
> 
> I'd like your thoughts on ticket #1939.  I'm looking to get rid of the 
> output-only user data types.  Specifically...
> 
> summarystats
> histogram
> quantile
> valuecount
> 
> Since types are a pain to upgrade, I'm thinking of removing them.  
> Yes, user data types are syntactic sugar and do make the sql files 
> cleaner instead of having a bunch of OUT function parameters.
> 
> Thoughts?

Did they ever get into an official release ? 
If so, dropping them would be as painful as upgrading them.

--strk;