unknown property types

[ghazel]

My model has a column of type "geography(Point)" (from the PostGis extension for postgresql).

However when I try to define:

db.define("place", { name: String, location:'geography(Point)' })

I get:

/project/node_modules/orm/lib/Property.js:34
        throw ErrorCodes.generateError(ErrorCodes.NO_SUPPORT, "Unknown property type
                         ^
Error: Unknown property type: geography(Point)
    at Object.defineProperty.value (/project/node_modules/orm/lib/ErrorCodes.js:12:13)
    at Object.exports.normalize (/project/node_modules/orm/lib/Property.js:34:20)
    at new Model (/project/node_modules/orm/lib/Model.js:173:33)
    at ORM.define (/project/node_modules/orm/lib/ORM.js:208:22)
    at csv.from.path.on.name (/project/cities.js:15:20)
    at /project/node_modules/orm/lib/ORM.js:121:13
    at null.<anonymous> (/project/node_modules/pg/lib/client.js:134:7)
    at g (events.js:175:14)
    at EventEmitter.emit (events.js:117:20)
    at Socket.<anonymous> (/project/node_modules/pg/lib/connection.js:89:12)

How do I make orm work with types it doesn't know about? (I intend on writing the relevant where clauses by hand).

[dxg]

User defined types would be nice to have.
A plugin seems overkill for every single type, so I think a basic API would be best.
API would accept code for DDL CREATE TABLE column definition and DML valueToProperty & propertyToValue functions.
Not sure how the pg driver would need any special treatment.

[ghazel]

I'd be pretty happy, as a simple starting point, to be able to pass type names as strings and shuffle untranslated data to and from the database. You know, like the underlying database libraries do.

[dxg]

Have a look at the doco in the wiki, install ORM from master, and see if it works for you as expected.
I installed postgis and gave it a try yesterday, and it seemed to work in my very simple test case.