Re: Undocumented FLOAT data type

From: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>
To: Mark Butler <butlerm(at)middle(dot)net>
Cc: <pgsql-docs(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Undocumented FLOAT data type
Date: 2001-04-12 22:37:18
Message-ID: Pine.LNX.4.30.0104130036280.1148-100000@peter.localdomain
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Mark Butler writes:

> I just noticed the SQL-92 FLOAT datatype is implemented in the grammar but is
> not documented in the manual.

It's in the 7.1 manual.

> By the way, what was the ANSI/ISO SQL committee thinking when they made up
> perverse names like "CHARACTER VARYING"? (Not to mention all the functions
> that require special grammar rules just to parse...)

There is strong evidence that they were only thinking a small fraction of
the total time.

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Peter Eisentraut peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net http://yi.org/peter-e/

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