Re: timestamptz alias - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Andrew Dunstan
Subject Re: timestamptz alias
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Msg-id 45228C3A.2090704@dunslane.net
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In response to Re: timestamptz alias  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
Responses Re: timestamptz alias  ("Jim C. Nasby" <jim@nasby.net>)
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Tom Lane wrote:
> Markus Schaber <schabi@logix-tt.com> writes:
>   
>> Here's a small patch that adds an appropriate explanation.
>>     
>
> If we're going to document these aliases, what of float4, float8, and bool?
> Also, although the docs mention int2/int4/int8, it's more or less left
> to the reader's imagination to deduce what they are.
>
> Perhaps it'd be better to provide a small table of recognized type
> aliases, rather than inserting equivalent notes into three or four places.
>
>     


you mean like the table here?  
http://momjian.us/main/writings/pgsql/sgml/datatype.html


cheers

andrew


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