On Wed, 2022-09-28 at 10:48 -0400, Tom Lane wrote: > Laurenz Albe <laurenz.a...@cybertec.at> writes: > > > I think that adding "bpchar(n)" in table 8.4 would be a good thing. > > > Here is a patch for that. > > There would need to be some mention of it in the paras below, too.
True. I think the attached should be sufficient. Yours, Laurenz Albe
From da68eb76e61d86c9de464107fb790fd73cba0004 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Laurenz Albe <laurenz.a...@cybertec.at> Date: Wed, 28 Sep 2022 17:17:45 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] Document "bpchar" as character data type "bpchar" is our internal name for "character", but it should still be documented as an alternative name to avoid confusion. Per request from Yanliang Lei. Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/120b3084.56b6.1833b5ffe4b.coremail.msdnch...@163.com --- doc/src/sgml/datatype.sgml | 11 ++++++----- 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/datatype.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/datatype.sgml index 0258b192e0..14d63b7bbc 100644 --- a/doc/src/sgml/datatype.sgml +++ b/doc/src/sgml/datatype.sgml @@ -1169,7 +1169,7 @@ SELECT '52093.89'::money::numeric::float8; <entry>variable-length with limit</entry> </row> <row> - <entry><type>character(<replaceable>n</replaceable>)</type>, <type>char(<replaceable>n</replaceable>)</type></entry> + <entry><type>character(<replaceable>n</replaceable>)</type>, <type>char(<replaceable>n</replaceable>)</type>, <type>bpchar(<replaceable>n</replaceable>)</type></entry> <entry>fixed-length, blank padded</entry> </row> <row> @@ -1213,10 +1213,11 @@ SELECT '52093.89'::money::numeric::float8; </para> <para> - The notations <type>varchar(<replaceable>n</replaceable>)</type> and - <type>char(<replaceable>n</replaceable>)</type> are aliases for <type>character - varying(<replaceable>n</replaceable>)</type> and - <type>character(<replaceable>n</replaceable>)</type>, respectively. + The notation <type>varchar(<replaceable>n</replaceable>)</type> is an + alias for <type>character varying(<replaceable>n</replaceable>)</type>, + and <type>char(<replaceable>n</replaceable>)</type> and + <type>bpchar(<replaceable>n</replaceable>)</type> are aliases for + <type>character(<replaceable>n</replaceable>)</type>. If specified, the length must be greater than zero and cannot exceed 10485760. <type>character</type> without length specifier is equivalent to -- 2.37.3
