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commit    186bc0dfdcb0d4376ffe575bc75a8caf020abbfc
Author:   Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Date:     Thu Aug 07 22:04:45 2025 +0000
First released in: 13.22, 14.19, 15.14, 16.10, 17.6, 18.0

    doc: add float as an alias for double precision.
    
    Although the "Floating-Point Types" section says that "float" data
    type is taken to mean "double precision", this information was not
    reflected in the data type table that lists all data type aliases.
    
    Reported-by: alexander.kjall@hafslund.no
    Author: Euler Taveira <euler@eulerto.com>
    Reviewed-by: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
    Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/175456294638.800.12038559679827947313@wrigleys.postgresql.org
    Backpatch-through: 13


 doc/src/sgml/datatype.sgml | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/datatype.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/datatype.sgml
index d38dc4c70bd..b07869fc197 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/datatype.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/datatype.sgml
@@ -117,7 +117,7 @@
 
       <row>
        <entry><type>double precision</type></entry>
-       <entry><type>float8</type></entry>
+       <entry><type>float</type>, <type>float8</type></entry>
        <entry>double precision floating-point number (8 bytes)</entry>
       </row>
 


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