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To: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@commandprompt.com>
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Subject: Re: Couple document fixes 
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From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
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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...

			regards, tom lane