[Feature] Improve documentation for database types and how they are generated and documented. #437
Description
What is the motivation for your feature request? Please describe what you want to use it for.
The process of adding new compound/complex data types to the database backends, for use by archetype developers, is arcane and poorly documented. The documentation does provide a list of available database types, but little about how to add new ones.
Describe the feature you'd like.
Add a page to the archetype developers guide that descibes:
- how to add new data types
- the various ways those data types are automatically processed and why
Describe alternatives you've considered.
The alternative is that developers need to do a forensic code study to figure out what's going on (or ask an AI agent to help).
Additional context.
This may be a good task for pair-programming since the complexity of these processes may be understood more easily by multiple people sharing perspectives.
How can this issue be closed?
Add a page to the documentation that covers these topics.