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From: Andrew Dunstan <[email protected]>
To: Markus Schaber <[email protected]>
Cc: PostgreSQL-development hackers <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: timestamptz alias
Date: Wed, 04 Oct 2006 10:17:51 -0400
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Markus Schaber wrote:
> It's not only about documenting the pure existence of the aliases (which
> was already documented in the table on the datatype TOC page), it's also
> about telling the user which of the names are the ones to avoid, and the
> reasons to do so.
>
>
>   

*blink* Why do any need to be avoided? What you use is a matter of 
taste, and your organisation's coding standards. From a purely technical 
POV I don't see any reason to avoid using either the canonical type 
names or the various aliases.

cheers

andrew

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