Re: the integer type - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Peter Eisentraut
Subject Re: the integer type
Date
Msg-id 200604172116.12149.peter_e@gmx.net
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In response to Re: the integer type  ("Dave Page" <dpage@vale-housing.co.uk>)
Responses Re: the integer type
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Dave Page wrote:
> > It's not a error, pgAdmin III simply does not display the
> > word integer in it's drop down comboboxes, it uses all the
> > internal representation of types not the SQL standard aliases.
>
> Which allows you to use any custom datatype or domain that you like.

That is completely unrelated.  If pgadmin (or any tool) passed the data
types it presumably fetches from pg_type or thereabouts through the
format_type function it could present the user with a full list of
actually available data types but in their preferred spellings.

--
Peter Eisentraut
http://developer.postgresql.org/~petere/

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