Re: Re: Data types? - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Tom Lane
Subject Re: Re: Data types?
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Msg-id 880.984431198@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to Re: Data types?  ("Timothy H. Keitt" <Timothy.Keitt@StonyBrook.Edu>)
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"Timothy H. Keitt" <Timothy.Keitt@StonyBrook.Edu> writes:
> By the way, what are all those types prefixed with an
> underscore?  Are these ever delivered to a client?

If foo is a simple type, then (by convention) _foo is an array of foo,
ie, it's the internal name for "foo[]".

"CREATE TYPE foo" makes the array type _foo as well...

            regards, tom lane

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