culley harrelson <culley(at)fastmail(dot)fm> writes:
> I thought it was strange that TEXT, a data type, is not a key word.
Why would you think that? Given that Postgres has an extensible type
system, we'd hardly want type names to be keywords. They're just
identifiers.
We do have keywords for some types that are mandated to have special
syntax by the SQL spec, such as "character varying(n)", because they
need special processing in the grammar.
regards, tom lane