Received: from maia.hub.org (maia-5.hub.org [200.46.204.29]) by mail.postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 420021337B61 for ; Fri, 11 Mar 2011 11:52:23 -0400 (AST) Received: from mail.postgresql.org ([200.46.204.86]) by maia.hub.org (mx1.hub.org [200.46.204.29]) (amavisd-maia, port 10024) with ESMTP id 47798-01 for ; Fri, 11 Mar 2011 15:52:14 +0000 (UTC) X-Greylist: from auto-whitelisted by SQLgrey-1.7.6 Received: from spinlock.commandprompt.com (unknown [207.173.203.215]) by mail.postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9E8BB133616B for ; Fri, 11 Mar 2011 11:52:12 -0400 (AST) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by spinlock.commandprompt.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 38744348046; Fri, 11 Mar 2011 07:51:52 -0800 (PST) X-Virus-Scanned: Debian amavisd-new at commandprompt.com Received: from spinlock.commandprompt.com ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (spinlock.commandprompt.com.commandprompt.com [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 9NiAaWo9ejFB; Fri, 11 Mar 2011 07:51:50 -0800 (PST) Received: from perhan.alvh.no-ip.org (unknown [190.95.20.220]) by spinlock.commandprompt.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id E921C348022; Fri, 11 Mar 2011 07:51:49 -0800 (PST) Received: by perhan.alvh.no-ip.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 26A3A6E58B; Fri, 11 Mar 2011 12:51:47 -0300 (CLST) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Cc: Bruce Momjian , Kevin Grittner , Thom Brown , PostgreSQL-development Subject: Re: Couple document fixes From: Alvaro Herrera To: Tom Lane In-reply-to: <19167.1299858050@sss.pgh.pa.us> References: <201103111113.p2BBDKX04227@momjian.us> <1299856725-sup-5827@alvh.no-ip.org> <19167.1299858050@sss.pgh.pa.us> Date: Fri, 11 Mar 2011 12:51:47 -0300 Message-Id: <1299858450-sup-6133@alvh.no-ip.org> User-Agent: Sup/git Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Virus-Scanned: Maia Mailguard 1.0.1 X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-1.107 tagged_above=-5 required=5 tests=BAYES_00=-1.9, RDNS_NONE=0.793 X-Spam-Level: X-Archive-Number: 201103/789 X-Sequence-Number: 184039 Excerpts from Tom Lane's message of vie mar 11 12:40:50 -0300 2011: > Alvaro Herrera 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. -- Álvaro Herrera The PostgreSQL Company - Command Prompt, Inc. PostgreSQL Replication, Consulting, Custom Development, 24x7 support