Re: Built-in Postgres Types as shown in Chap. 4 Programmer's Guide - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Tom Lane
Subject Re: Built-in Postgres Types as shown in Chap. 4 Programmer's Guide
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Msg-id 23318.973723772@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to Built-in Postgres Types as shown in Chap. 4 Programmer's Guide  (oberpwd@anubis.network.com (Wade D. Oberpriller))
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oberpwd@anubis.network.com (Wade D. Oberpriller) writes:
> Can anyone point me into the right directions for building PostgreSQL with
> the built-in types that are shown in Chap. 4 of the Programmer's Guide.

> I would like to make use of the uint2/uint4 and float4/float8 datatypes, but
> they don't appear to be automatically built in.

float4/float8 certainly are built in.  I dunno where this table came from,
though, because uint2/uint4 never have existed as SQL-level types AFAIK.
There seem to be some other flights of fancy (or just obsolete info)
in this table as well.

            regards, tom lane

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