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- This directory contains definitions for a couple of PostgreSQL
- external types, for a couple of international-standard namespaces:
- ISBN (books) and ISSN (serials). Rather than just using a char()
- member of the appropriate length, I wanted my database to include
- the validity-checking that both these numbering systems were designed
- to encompass. A little bit of research revealed the formulae
- for computing the check digits, and I also included some validity
- constraints on the number of hyphens.
- The internal representation of these types is intended to be
- compatible with `char16', in the (perhaps vain) hope that
- this will make it possible to create indices of these types
- using char16_ops.
- These are based on Tom Ivar Helbekkmo's IP address type definition,
- from which I have copied the entire form of the implementation.
- Garrett A. Wollman, August 1998