Can we express Postgres types in Gel?

[goerch]

We want to use a construction like Postgres types, for example

CREATE TYPE annotation AS (
  annotation_date TEXT,
  annotation_type TEXT,
  annotator TEXT,
  comment TEXT
);

in Gel. Is it possible that this is not supported?

[CodesInChaos]

You can create a custom scalar type that inherits from a named tuple. Something like:

scalar type annotation extending tuple<x: str, y: int64>;

[goerch]

You can create a custom scalar type that inherits from a named tuple. Something like:

scalar type annotation extending tuple<x: str, y: int64>;

Thanks for your help. We get error: scalar type 'default::tuple' does not exist. What do we do wrong?

[CodesInChaos]

I forgot that this was just a feature I requested, not something that's actually supported. #7650

And since Gel/EdgeDB has been abandoned, it will never see the light of day. 😞