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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 22:04:55 +0000 (18:04 -0400)
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

index 09309ba0390b72cd20e3a47f315212bda364d428..833922207365d315b0d89a04d8d117f25b475d9e 100644 (file)
 
       <row>
        <entry><type>double precision</type></entry>
-       <entry><type>float8</type></entry>
+       <entry><type>float</type>, <type>float8</type></entry>
        <entry>double precision floating-point number (8 bytes)</entry>
       </row>