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Re: Couple document fixes

Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@commandprompt.com>

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From: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@commandprompt.com>
To: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Cc: Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>, Kevin Grittner <kevin.grittner@wicourts.gov>, Thom Brown <thom@linux.com>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2011-03-11T15:51:47Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers 
Excerpts from Tom Lane's message of vie mar 11 12:40:50 -0300 2011:
> Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@commandprompt.com> writes:
> > One idea is to rename the type to something else.  We could keep "char"
> > as an alias for backwards compatibility, but use the new name in system
> > catalogs, and document it as the main name of the type.
> 
> We don't have type aliases...

I meant the conversion we do from a certain name (say because it's the
SQL-mandated name for the type) to the internal name, such as mapping
integer to int4.

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