Re: boolean and bool in documentation - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Bruce Momjian
Subject Re: boolean and bool in documentation
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Msg-id 20190222001313.ccoerqnt4mu6rljm@momjian.us
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In response to boolean and bool in documentation  (Masahiko Sawada <sawada.mshk@gmail.com>)
Responses Re: boolean and bool in documentation  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
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On Tue, Feb 19, 2019 at 12:56:19AM +0900, Masahiko Sawada wrote:
> AFAICS there seems not to be explicit rules and policies for usage of
> 'boolean' and 'bool'. We use 'bool' for colum data type of almost
> system catalogs but use 'boolean' for some catalogs (pg_pltemplate and
> pg_policy). The same is true for functions and system views. Is it
> better to unify them into 'boolean' for consistency and so as not
> unnecessarily confuse users? FYI the name of boolean type is 'boolean'
> in the standard.

Yes, I think so.

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