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From Peter Eisentraut
Subject Re: CREATE TABLE ( .. STORAGE ..)
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In response to Re: CREATE TABLE ( .. STORAGE ..)  (Matthias van de Meent <boekewurm+postgres@gmail.com>)
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On 29.03.22 22:28, Matthias van de Meent wrote:
> As I'm new to the grammar files; would you know the difference between
> `name` and `ColId`, and why you would change from one to the other in
> ALTER COLUMN STORAGE?

The grammar says

name:       ColId                                   { $$ = $1; };

so it doesn't matter technically.

It seems we are using "name" mostly for names of objects, so I wouldn't 
use it here for storage or compression types.

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