Re: varchar alias not supported as datatype

From: Dave Page <dpage(at)pgadmin(dot)org>
To: Rade Martinović <rade(at)rcub(dot)bg(dot)ac(dot)rs>
Cc: pgadmin-support(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: varchar alias not supported as datatype
Date: 2009-10-15 12:55:02
Message-ID: 937d27e10910150555j2903d438y94e9c29e15d7adc6@mail.gmail.com
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2009/10/15 Rade Martinović <rade(at)rcub(dot)bg(dot)ac(dot)rs>:
> Hello pgadmin team.
>
> I am using pgAdmin 1.10.0 on Windows XP SP 3.
>
> Varchar is a valid alias for character varying in Postgres 8 as stated here:
> http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.0/interactive/datatype-character.html
> Still, pgadmin does not accept varchar as valid datatype when creating
> columns on table. It should not be so.

pgAdmin only displays the 'official' names by design.

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Dave Page
EnterpriseDB UK: http://www.enterprisedb.com

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