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| author | Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> | 2025-08-07 18:04:45 -0400 |
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| committer | Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> | 2025-08-07 18:04:45 -0400 |
| commit | 04b7ff3cd33c0b9574eed3b662c16d810a903bd4 (patch) | |
| tree | ebba2f2fa4c5ed849a48615bd1dfdbbb97ce03f0 | |
| parent | d699687b329e031cd90e967b39c3fd8a53ef8208 (diff) | |
doc: add float as an alias for double precision.
Although the "Floating-Point Types" section says that "float" data
type is taken to mean "double precision", this information was not
reflected in the data type table that lists all data type aliases.
Reported-by: alexander.kjall@hafslund.no
Author: Euler Taveira <euler@eulerto.com>
Reviewed-by: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/175456294638.800.12038559679827947313@wrigleys.postgresql.org
Backpatch-through: 13
| -rw-r--r-- | doc/src/sgml/datatype.sgml | 2 |
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/datatype.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/datatype.sgml index 0994e089311..7458f216e50 100644 --- a/doc/src/sgml/datatype.sgml +++ b/doc/src/sgml/datatype.sgml @@ -117,7 +117,7 @@ <row> <entry><type>double precision</type></entry> - <entry><type>float8</type></entry> + <entry><type>float</type>, <type>float8</type></entry> <entry>double precision floating-point number (8 bytes)</entry> </row> |