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From Neil Conway
Subject Re: NUMERIC key word
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Msg-id 1202683340.6078.46.camel@goldbach
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In response to Re: NUMERIC key word  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
Responses Re: NUMERIC key word  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
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On Tue, 2008-01-29 at 13:20 -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
> The reason it was kept was to override the search path --- unqualified
> NUMERIC will always be taken as pg_catalog.numeric even if you have some
> other type "numeric" in front of it.

It should be possible to implement this behavior without requiring
NUMERIC to be a keyword, though.

-Neil

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