Re: varchar alias not supported as datatype

2009/10/15 Rade Martinović <rade(at)rcub(dot)bg(dot)ac(dot)rs>:
>> 2009/10/15 Rade Martinović <rade(at)rcub(dot)bg(dot)ac(dot)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.
>>
> Is not 'serial' alias for integer NOT NULL with a sequence?

Serial is more of a macro than an alias.

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