From: Peter Eisentraut <peter@eisentraut.org>
To: eric@aquameta.com
To: pgsql-docs@lists.postgresql.org
Subject: Re: "name" vs "alias" in datatype table
Date: Wed, 29 Nov 2023 14:40:19 +0100
Message-ID: <83419ce9-e2ba-46e9-aaff-f6bbe448a327@eisentraut.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <170077271331.398198.16997446522206025709@wrigleys.postgresql.org>
References: <170077271331.398198.16997446522206025709@wrigleys.postgresql.org>
On 23.11.23 21:51, PG Doc comments form wrote:
> I think there could be some clarification of what is a "name" vs. "alias" on
> the datatypes table. Right now, what's in the "Aliases" column is sometimes
> postgres's internal type (e.g. `pg_catalog.int4`), and sometimes the "pretty
> name", (e.g. `integer`).
This appears not to be true. `integer` is not listed as an alias.
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