From: | "Dave Page" <dpage(at)vale-housing(dot)co(dot)uk> |
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To: | "Andreas Pflug" <pgadmin(at)pse-consulting(dot)de>, "Adam H(dot) Pendleton" <fmonkey(at)fmonkey(dot)net> |
Cc: | "pgadmin-hackers" <pgadmin-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
Subject: | Re: Smallint |
Date: | 2003-08-18 18:33:30 |
Message-ID: | 03AF4E498C591348A42FC93DEA9661B844B4AB@mail.vale-housing.co.uk |
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Andreas Pflug [mailto:pgadmin(at)pse-consulting(dot)de]
> Sent: 18 August 2003 18:41
> To: Adam H. Pendleton
> Cc: pgadmin-hackers
> Subject: Re: [pgadmin-hackers] Smallint
>
>
> Adam H. Pendleton wrote:
>
> > Duh! Obviously it's not, it's just that pgAdmin3 calls it an int2?
> > Any reason not to call it a smallint, since that's they way it's
> > referred to in the documentation?
>
> Yeah.
> Virtually all types are read from the database. SMALLINT and
> INTEGER are
> parser translations, and there might be more. IMHO, the
> combobox already
> shows way to much.
>
> Only types that don't have a pg_type entry (serial,
> bigserial) are added
> manually.
For v2, perhaps we should default to an 'newbie mode' (obviously not
called that ;-) ) in which we list only the standard SQL types and their
array equivalents? I have seen datatype queries from newbies a number of
times in the past.
Regards, Dave
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