| From: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
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| To: | Vincenzo Romano <vincenzo(dot)romano(at)notorand(dot)it> |
| Cc: | pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: A maybe-bug? |
| Date: | 2010-01-07 14:52:16 |
| Message-ID: | 22785.1262875936@sss.pgh.pa.us |
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Vincenzo Romano <vincenzo(dot)romano(at)notorand(dot)it> writes:
> I tried this:
> tmp1=# CREATE DOMAIN real as numeric;
> [ and got confused between this domain and the built-in "real" ]
> It looks like to me this is a bug and also the documentation seems to confirm:
> "The domain name must be unique among the types and domains existing
> in its schema."
No bug. The REAL keyword is treated as an alias for pg_catalog.float4,
but even if it weren't an alias, it would exist in schema pg_catalog.
Thus there is not a name conflict with your domain, which (I suppose)
was created in the "public" schema.
regards, tom lane
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