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doc: add float as an alias for double precision.
authorTom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Thu, 7 Aug 2025 22:04:45 +0000 (18:04 -0400)
committerTom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Thu, 7 Aug 2025 22:05:15 +0000 (18:05 -0400)
commitfe966e886ce844fda21839d711b0029a46836177
tree87ccaa25eb7effbebe965d66a01e547437605cfc
parentc5d66fc12b0891fd5f2a830ab9fa9feb8df94171
doc: add float as an alias for double precision.

Although the "Floating-Point Types" section says that "float" data
type is taken to mean "double precision", this information was not
reflected in the data type table that lists all data type aliases.

Reported-by: alexander.kjall@hafslund.no
Author: Euler Taveira <euler@eulerto.com>
Reviewed-by: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/175456294638.800.12038559679827947313@wrigleys.postgresql.org
Backpatch-through: 13
doc/src/sgml/datatype.sgml