Domain data types
Supported by ✅ Open Source Edition ✅ Express Edition ✅ Professional Edition ✅ Enterprise Edition
A DOMAIN type is a standard SQL way of declaring a type name to be associated with a set of restrictions on existing types, typically on Built-in data types. Domain types can be created using the CREATE DOMAIN statement. The simplest type just declares the base type it enhances, without any additional clauses or constraints:
CREATE DOMAIN email AS VARCHAR(256)
To get a hold of the backing DataType<String> for this domain type, the generated code can be used as follows:
DataType<String> emailType = Domains.EMAIL.getDataType();
Additional type safety can be achieved using embedded domains, in case of which:
DataType<EmailRecord> emailType = Domains.EMAIL.getDataType();
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