Adding new datatypes for attributes

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hi all,

I have been looking through Class::DBI and found most of what I need to
allow me to port a large Tangram project to CDBI (allbeit with a bunch of
extra subclasses and plugins, which I have nicknamed PINT).

Anyway, I was hoping somebody could point me in the right direction to
adding some extra datatypes for attributes so that an attributed could be
a list, or a vector/bitmap or an enum or a storable binary.

I am guessing any users of these types will have to specify to use these
types, rather than determine them on the fly (although that would be
useful and cool), but I don't see where I could hack them in. There is a
nice way of adding new relationships which is cool and I was hoping that
even if there isn't something similar for datatypes there might be a
starting point to work from.

cheers,

A.

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