User-defined types
Using a tuple column to group educational information into a single column has several advantages, but there's also something missing. The education column comprises two components: the first, a string, is the name of an educational institution, and the second, an integer, is a graduation year. As the developers of the MyStatus application, we know what the two components of the tuple represent; however, this knowledge is not made explicit anywhere in the database definition.
To solve this problem, we can instead use a user-defined type. User-defined types are very similar to tuples, except that each component has a name. This makes it easier for application developers to easily infer the intent of a user-defined type. As we'll ...
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