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Proposal for new data types

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Several issues have come up related to data types that can be used in an `define_table()` command and how data is converted from Lua to osm2pgsql. In all these cases...

joto

Support for enums

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Enums are an interesting datatype in SQL. Enums can be created with `CREATE TYPE` in PostgreSQL. Features: 1. Storage is relatively compact, 4 bytes only. This is less than typical...

joto

Future of vendored libraries

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Some libraries we depend on are included in the osm2pgsql repository in the `contrib` directory. This kind of vendoring is usually not a good idea because it makes packaging more...

lonvia

Using binary format for COPY

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As part of #2110 we found that using the binary format for COPY promises some performance benefits. Lets think about what changes we need for that. The [binary format](https://www.postgresql.org/docs/17/sql-copy.html#id-1.9.3.55.9.4) seems...

joto