From 04b7ff3cd33c0b9574eed3b662c16d810a903bd4 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Date: Thu, 7 Aug 2025 18:04:45 -0400
Subject: 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
---
 doc/src/sgml/datatype.sgml | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

(limited to 'doc/src')

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>
 
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