| From: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
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| To: | Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com> |
| Cc: | Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us>, Kevin Grittner <kevin(dot)grittner(at)wicourts(dot)gov>, Thom Brown <thom(at)linux(dot)com>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: Couple document fixes |
| Date: | 2011-03-11 16:01:06 |
| Message-ID: | 19827.1299859266@sss.pgh.pa.us |
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Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com> writes:
> Excerpts from Tom Lane's message of vie mar 11 12:40:50 -0300 2011:
>> Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com> writes:
>>> One idea is to rename the type to something else. We could keep "char"
>>> as an alias for backwards compatibility, but use the new name in system
>>> catalogs, and document it as the main name of the type.
>> We don't have type aliases...
> I meant the conversion we do from a certain name (say because it's the
> SQL-mandated name for the type) to the internal name, such as mapping
> integer to int4.
That works for keywords. "char" is, by definition, not a keyword.
regards, tom lane
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