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From Peter Eisentraut
Subject Re: "name" vs "alias" in datatype table
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Msg-id 83419ce9-e2ba-46e9-aaff-f6bbe448a327@eisentraut.org
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In response to "name" vs "alias" in datatype table  (PG Doc comments form <noreply@postgresql.org>)
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On 23.11.23 21:51, PG Doc comments form wrote:
> I think there could be some clarification of what is a "name" vs. "alias" on
> the datatypes table.  Right now, what's in the "Aliases" column is sometimes
> postgres's internal type (e.g. `pg_catalog.int4`), and sometimes the "pretty
> name", (e.g. `integer`).

This appears not to be true.  `integer` is not listed as an alias.

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