Michael Meskes wrote:
>
> On Wed, Feb 10, 1999 at 02:28:10AM +0000, Thomas G. Lockhart wrote:
> > However, it is handled in a special way: in contexts where one would
> > expect a type name, "int" is translated to "int4" explicitly (very early
> > on, from gram.y). Otherwise it is not translated.
>
> And int4 is reserved? Is is not in keywords.c though.
No it's not, it just happens that it is already defined as a type,
and in postgres defining a table also defines a type.
In some senses table and type in postgres mean the same thing.
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Hannu
