Received: from news.tht.net (news.hub.org [216.126.91.242]) by postgresql.org (8.11.3/8.11.1) with ESMTP id f3C1tA805640 for ; Wed, 11 Apr 2001 21:55:10 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from news@news.tht.net) Received: (from news@localhost) by news.tht.net (8.11.1/8.11.1) id f3C1nK149079 for pgsql-docs@postgresql.org; Wed, 11 Apr 2001 21:49:20 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from news) From: Mark Butler X-Newsgroups: comp.databases.postgresql.docs Subject: Undocumented FLOAT data type Date: Wed, 11 Apr 2001 19:49:09 -0600 Organization: Hub.Org Networking Services (http://www.hub.org) Lines: 8 Message-ID: <3AD50995.74838FC5@middle.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: scrappy@hub.org X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.75 [en] (WinNT; U) X-Accept-Language: en To: pgsql-docs@postgresql.org X-Archive-Number: 200104/41 X-Sequence-Number: 613 I just noticed the SQL-92 FLOAT datatype is implemented in the grammar but is not documented in the manual. By the way, what was the ANSI/ISO SQL committee thinking when they made up perverse names like "CHARACTER VARYING"? (Not to mention all the functions that require special grammar rules just to parse...) - Mark Butler