James Coleman writes:
> I've been wondering recently why the external canonical form of types
> like char and varchar doesn't match the typname in pg_type.
Mostly because the SQL standard wants certain spellings, some of
which aren't even single words (e.g. DOUBLE PRECISION). There
are cases whe
I've been wondering recently why the external canonical form of types
like char and varchar doesn't match the typname in pg_type.
Additionally, the alternative/extended names are hardcoded in
format_type.c rather than being an additional column in that catalog
table.
I would have assumed there wer
