Re: PATH no longer a part of 7.4?

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: "Dan Langille" <dan(at)langille(dot)org>
Cc: Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>, pgsql-docs(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: PATH no longer a part of 7.4?
Date: 2004-02-10 16:32:41
Message-ID: 15811.1076430761@sss.pgh.pa.us
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"Dan Langille" <dan(at)langille(dot)org> writes:
> Here is how this issue arose. A user of [ 7.2.something ]
> is getting this error when creating a table named path.

Right, in 7.2 the rowtype for such a table would conflict with the
predefined type.

> I've been able to create this table under 7.4.1, 7.4, and 7.3.4 (but
> have no other versions under which I can test).

In 7.3 and later there is no conflict, because the predefined type name
lives in the pg_catalog schema, which is not where user tables are
customarily created.

regards, tom lane

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