Re: Data Types and Their Aliases

From: John DeSoi <desoi(at)pgedit(dot)com>
To: "Garcia, Joshua" <Joshua(dot)Garcia(at)xerox(dot)com>
Cc: <pgsql-novice(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Data Types and Their Aliases
Date: 2006-07-10 23:56:23
Message-ID: 574FBE79-298D-40C2-B33E-6703818AF36F@pgedit.com
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On Jul 10, 2006, at 6:24 PM, Garcia, Joshua wrote:

> Where is there a good reference that shows all the data types and
> their aliases?
>
>
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> For example, the reference would show that float8 is double
> precision and _float8 is an array of double precision data types.

http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.1/interactive/datatype.html#DATATYPE-
TABLE

Arrays are not included here, but if you need more details you can
look at the pg_type system table.

John DeSoi, Ph.D.
http://pgedit.com/
Power Tools for PostgreSQL

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