<html><head><style type='text/css'>p { margin: 0; }</style></head><body><div style='font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000'>Steve,<br><br>To be honest we haven't touched the built-in data-type definitions for probably more than 5-6 years and I wasn't in charge of them back then.<br><br>So there's a learning curve I have to jump on.<br><br>Designer's ".sdt" plugin contains both a built-in data-types .xsd & .xmi files. Not sure yet how they are related and if both are used. The XMI file does contain UUID's from the XSD file, or it could be vice-versa.<br><br>So as a minimum you are correct, adding the "varbinary" type to builtin-types.xsd is the place to start.<br><br>And I don't know the answer to "do we index enterprise datatype information on a per vdb basis?<br><br>Barry<br><br><hr id="zwchr"><blockquote style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><b>From: </b>"Steven Hawkins" <shawkins@redhat.com><br><b>To: </b>"teiid-designer-dev" <teiid-designer-dev@lists.jboss.org><br><b>Sent: </b>Wednesday, January 18, 2012 11:00:12 AM<br><b>Subject: </b>Re: [teiid-designer-dev] A new datatype<br><br>A follow-up question. The datatypes index we use in the system vdb looks like it was generated from the builtin-types.xsd. To add a new type, do I need to modify that xsd and in what version of designer would I then generate the appropriate index file? Related to that, do we index enterprise datatype information on a per vdb basis?<br><br>----- Original Message -----<br>> Hello all,<br>> <br>> What would be the impact in designer for adding a new type?<br>> https://issues.jboss.org/browse/TEIID-1834 could be achieved by<br>> adding a varbinary type. At the very least on the teiid side we'd<br>> update the DatatypeManager, the system vdb, and our type logic. But<br>> I'm not clear what impact there would be design time. Based upon<br>> the ease/difficulty of this we'll also be able to evaluate when it<br>> makes sense to add array type handling.<br>> <br>> Steve<br>_______________________________________________<br>teiid-designer-dev mailing list<br>teiid-designer-dev@lists.jboss.org<br>https://lists.jboss.org/mailman/listinfo/teiid-designer-dev<br></blockquote><br></div></body></html>