On Tue, Feb 3, 2009 at 4:28 PM, Tom Lane <tgl@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: >> Grzegorz Jaśkiewicz wrote: >>> looks like it really has to be defined with "char" in double quotes. I >>> thought just char is enough... > >> They're different types. > > You know, maybe we should stop holding our noses and do something about > this old gotcha. That type's not going away anytime soon, but could we > rename it to char1 or something like that? (With some sort of backward > compatibility hack, like a domain named "char".) > > On the other hand, that might be more trouble than it's worth. Even > with a domain alias, there'd be a nontrivial chance of breaking apps > that look at the char columns of the system catalogs. domains are out, unless arrays of domains are addressed first. merlin -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general
