Excerpts from Tom Lane's message of vie mar 11 12:40:50 -0300 2011: > Alvaro Herrera <alvhe...@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...
I meant the conversion we do from a certain name (say because it's the SQL-mandated name for the type) to the internal name, such as mapping integer to int4. -- Álvaro Herrera <alvhe...@commandprompt.com> The PostgreSQL Company - Command Prompt, Inc. PostgreSQL Replication, Consulting, Custom Development, 24x7 support -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
