"George Pavlov" <gpavlov@mynewplace.com> writes:
> yes, but int8 is a clearly documented while preceding certain "magic"
> datatype names with underscores is not. i really don't have much of a
> problem with this, but little things like this contribute to people
> coming from other DBMSs developing opinions that "this open-source stuff
> does weird, undocumented things" (not that commercial DBMSs don't do
> weird stuff :).
Undocumented? Read the CREATE TYPE manual page.
I'll agree it's pretty ugly, but it's not worth changing ... especially
since a change would break some legacy application code.
regards, tom lane
