doc: add float as an alias for double precision.
authorTom Lane <[email protected]>
Thu, 7 Aug 2025 22:04:45 +0000 (18:04 -0400)
committerTom Lane <[email protected]>
Thu, 7 Aug 2025 22:05:15 +0000 (18:05 -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: [email protected]
Author: Euler Taveira <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Tom Lane <[email protected]>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/175456294638.800.12038559679827947313@wrigleys.postgresql.org
Backpatch-through: 13

doc/src/sgml/datatype.sgml

index c65eee7cdcd193b4f3cf3dad8c00031a057e552a..ee421c372dd2e82bf34fc756cb1496fa3a2bd2b8 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>