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* add alias FLOAT for double precision @ 2025-08-07 10:35 PG Doc comments form <noreply@postgresql.org> 2025-08-07 13:57 ` Re: add alias FLOAT for double precision Euler Taveira <euler@eulerto.com> 0 siblings, 1 reply; 3+ messages in thread From: PG Doc comments form @ 2025-08-07 10:35 UTC (permalink / raw) To: pgsql-docs@lists.postgresql.org; +Cc: alexander.kjall@hafslund.no The following documentation comment has been logged on the website: Page: https://www.postgresql.org/docs/17/datatype.html Description: 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. ^ permalink raw reply [nested|flat] 3+ messages in thread
* Re: add alias FLOAT for double precision 2025-08-07 10:35 add alias FLOAT for double precision PG Doc comments form <noreply@postgresql.org> @ 2025-08-07 13:57 ` Euler Taveira <euler@eulerto.com> 2025-08-07 22:06 ` Re: add alias FLOAT for double precision Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> 0 siblings, 1 reply; 3+ messages in thread From: Euler Taveira @ 2025-08-07 13:57 UTC (permalink / raw) To: alexander.kjall@hafslund.no; pgsql-docs@lists.postgresql.org 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. -- Euler Taveira EDB https://www.enterprisedb.com/ Attachments: [text/x-patch] v1-0001-doc-Add-float-as-an-alias-to-double-precision.patch (968B, ../../a651595d-c8ad-433e-9371-314c3abec723@app.fastmail.com/2-v1-0001-doc-Add-float-as-an-alias-to-double-precision.patch) download | inline diff: From dab483c89424075eef0f1b939334c02dbc0227a8 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Euler Taveira <euler@eulerto.com> Date: Thu, 7 Aug 2025 10:48:41 -0300 Subject: [PATCH v1] doc: Add float as an alias to double precision Although "Floating-Point Types" section says that "float" data type is taken to mean "double precision", this information is not reflected into the data type table that lists all data type aliases. --- 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 0994e089311..7458f216e50 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> -- 2.39.5 ^ permalink raw reply [nested|flat] 3+ messages in thread
* Re: add alias FLOAT for double precision 2025-08-07 10:35 add alias FLOAT for double precision PG Doc comments form <noreply@postgresql.org> 2025-08-07 13:57 ` Re: add alias FLOAT for double precision Euler Taveira <euler@eulerto.com> @ 2025-08-07 22:06 ` Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> 0 siblings, 0 replies; 3+ messages in thread From: Tom Lane @ 2025-08-07 22:06 UTC (permalink / raw) To: Euler Taveira <euler@eulerto.com>; +Cc: alexander.kjall@hafslund.no; pgsql-docs@lists.postgresql.org "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 ^ permalink raw reply [nested|flat] 3+ messages in thread
end of thread, other threads:[~2025-08-07 22:06 UTC | newest] Thread overview: 3+ messages (download: mbox mbox.gz follow: Atom feed) -- links below jump to the message on this page -- 2025-08-07 10:35 add alias FLOAT for double precision PG Doc comments form <noreply@postgresql.org> 2025-08-07 13:57 ` Euler Taveira <euler@eulerto.com> 2025-08-07 22:06 ` Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
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