Re: the integer type

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Peter Eisentraut [mailto:peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net]
> Sent: 17 April 2006 20:16
> To: pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
> Cc: Dave Page; Tony Caduto; chris smith; Zahir Lalani
> Subject: Re: [GENERAL] the integer type
>
> Dave Page wrote:
> > > It's not a error, pgAdmin III simply does not display the word
> > > integer in it's drop down comboboxes, it uses all the internal
> > > representation of types not the SQL standard aliases.
> >
> > Which allows you to use any custom datatype or domain that you like.
>
> That is completely unrelated. If pgadmin (or any tool)
> passed the data types it presumably fetches from pg_type or
> thereabouts through the format_type function it could present
> the user with a full list of actually available data types
> but in their preferred spellings.

It's not at all unrelated - it just means that none of us were aware of
the existance of format_type.

Regards, Dave.