Re: Couple document fixes
Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@commandprompt.com>
Cc: Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>, Kevin Grittner <kevin.grittner@wicourts.gov>, Thom Brown <thom@linux.com>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2011-03-11T16:01:06Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@commandprompt.com> writes: > 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. That works for keywords. "char" is, by definition, not a keyword. regards, tom lane