Tweak parser so that there is a defined representation for datatypes

Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>

Commit: a585c20d12d0e22befc8308e9f8ccb6f54a5df69
Author: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Date: 2001-11-12T21:04:46Z
Releases: 7.2.1
Tweak parser so that there is a defined representation for datatypes
bpchar, bit, numeric with typmod -1.  Alter format_type so that this
representation is printed when the typmod is -1.  This ensures that
tables having such columns can be pg_dump'd and reloaded correctly.
Also, remove the rather useless and non-SQL-compliant default
precision and scale for type NUMERIC.  A numeric column declared as
such (with no precision/scale) will now have typmod -1 which means
that numeric values of any precision/scale can be stored in it,
without conversion to a uniform scale.  This seems significantly
more useful than the former behavior.  Part of response to bug #513.

Files

PathChange+/−
doc/src/sgml/datatype.sgml modified +19 −11
src/backend/parser/analyze.c modified +1 −28
src/backend/parser/gram.y modified +13 −7
src/backend/utils/adt/format_type.c modified +24 −11