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From Dave Page
Subject Re: varchar alias not supported as datatype
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In response to varchar alias not supported as datatype  (Rade Martinović <rade@rcub.bg.ac.rs>)
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2009/10/15 Rade Martinović <rade@rcub.bg.ac.rs>:
> Hello pgadmin team.
>
> I am using pgAdmin 1.10.0 on Windows XP SP 3.
>
> Varchar is a valid alias for character varying in Postgres 8 as stated here:
> http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.0/interactive/datatype-character.html
> Still, pgadmin does not accept varchar as valid datatype when creating
> columns on table. It should not be so.

pgAdmin only displays the 'official' names by design.

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