"Dan Langille" <dan@langille.org> writes:
> Here is how this issue arose. A user of [ 7.2.something ]
> is getting this error when creating a table named path.
Right, in 7.2 the rowtype for such a table would conflict with the
predefined type.
> I've been able to create this table under 7.4.1, 7.4, and 7.3.4 (but
> have no other versions under which I can test).
In 7.3 and later there is no conflict, because the predefined type name
lives in the pg_catalog schema, which is not where user tables are
customarily created.
regards, tom lane
