Re: NUMERIC key word

From: Neil Conway <neilc(at)samurai(dot)com>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>, pgsql-patches(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: NUMERIC key word
Date: 2008-02-10 22:42:20
Message-ID: 1202683340.6078.46.camel@goldbach
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On Tue, 2008-01-29 at 13:20 -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
> The reason it was kept was to override the search path --- unqualified
> NUMERIC will always be taken as pg_catalog.numeric even if you have some
> other type "numeric" in front of it.

It should be possible to implement this behavior without requiring
NUMERIC to be a keyword, though.

-Neil

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