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Re: Is CREATE TYPE an alias for CREATE DOMAIN?

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On Thu, Dec 22, 2005 at 05:16:16PM +0100, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> Jim C. Nasby wrote:
> > Some (most?) database's idea of 'creating a type' is actually what we
> > consider creating a domain,
> 
> Which databases do such a thing?

IIRC, Oracle, DB2, Sybase and MSSQL, though my memory's rusty... and I
should have mentioned that most are just creating an alias for a type
name, so you can't add stuff like constraints to the new type.
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