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Re: add alias FLOAT for double precision

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

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From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: "Euler Taveira" <euler@eulerto.com>
Cc: alexander.kjall@hafslund.no, pgsql-docs@lists.postgresql.org
Date: 2025-08-07T22:06:01Z
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"Euler Taveira" <euler@eulerto.com> writes:
> On Thu, Aug 7, 2025, at 7:35 AM, PG Doc comments form wrote:
>> In table 8.1 (
>> https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/datatype.html#DATATYPE-TABLE ) the
>> FLOAT alias isn't listed, I think it would make sense to include beside
>> FLOAT8.

> Makes sense.

Agreed, pushed.

			regards, tom lane

Commits

  1. doc: add float as an alias for double precision.