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authorTom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>2004-09-20 04:19:50 +0000
committerTom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>2004-09-20 04:19:50 +0000
commit768b647ead78d0d63915c1708cad13c2468f9440 (patch)
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Now that I look, table 8-1 has some other marginal misstatements in it.
If we're going to put brackets around optional precision specs in some entries, we'd better do it in all.
Diffstat (limited to 'doc/src')
-rw-r--r--doc/src/sgml/datatype.sgml22
1 files changed, 11 insertions, 11 deletions
diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/datatype.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/datatype.sgml
index d15d7b398e4..6408461d2e2 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/datatype.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/datatype.sgml
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
<!--
-$PostgreSQL: pgsql/doc/src/sgml/datatype.sgml,v 1.148 2004/09/18 15:28:03 tgl Exp $
+$PostgreSQL: pgsql/doc/src/sgml/datatype.sgml,v 1.149 2004/09/20 04:19:50 tgl Exp $
-->
<chapter id="datatype">
@@ -56,14 +56,14 @@ $PostgreSQL: pgsql/doc/src/sgml/datatype.sgml,v 1.148 2004/09/18 15:28:03 tgl Ex
</row>
<row>
- <entry><type>bit</type></entry>
+ <entry><type>bit [ (<replaceable>n</replaceable>) ]</type></entry>
<entry></entry>
<entry>fixed-length bit string</entry>
</row>
<row>
- <entry><type>bit varying(<replaceable>n</replaceable>)</type></entry>
- <entry><type>varbit(<replaceable>n</replaceable>)</type></entry>
+ <entry><type>bit varying [ (<replaceable>n</replaceable>) ]</type></entry>
+ <entry><type>varbit</type></entry>
<entry>variable-length bit string</entry>
</row>
@@ -86,14 +86,14 @@ $PostgreSQL: pgsql/doc/src/sgml/datatype.sgml,v 1.148 2004/09/18 15:28:03 tgl Ex
</row>
<row>
- <entry><type>character varying(<replaceable>n</replaceable>)</type></entry>
- <entry><type>varchar(<replaceable>n</replaceable>)</type></entry>
+ <entry><type>character varying [ (<replaceable>n</replaceable>) ]</type></entry>
+ <entry><type>varchar [ (<replaceable>n</replaceable>) ]</type></entry>
<entry>variable-length character string</entry>
</row>
<row>
- <entry><type>character(<replaceable>n</replaceable>)</type></entry>
- <entry><type>char(<replaceable>n</replaceable>)</type></entry>
+ <entry><type>character [ (<replaceable>n</replaceable>) ]</type></entry>
+ <entry><type>char [ (<replaceable>n</replaceable>) ]</type></entry>
<entry>fixed-length character string</entry>
</row>
@@ -134,7 +134,7 @@ $PostgreSQL: pgsql/doc/src/sgml/datatype.sgml,v 1.148 2004/09/18 15:28:03 tgl Ex
</row>
<row>
- <entry><type>interval(<replaceable>p</replaceable>)</type></entry>
+ <entry><type>interval [ (<replaceable>p</replaceable>) ]</type></entry>
<entry></entry>
<entry>time span</entry>
</row>
@@ -174,7 +174,7 @@ $PostgreSQL: pgsql/doc/src/sgml/datatype.sgml,v 1.148 2004/09/18 15:28:03 tgl Ex
<row>
<entry><type>path</type></entry>
<entry></entry>
- <entry>open and closed geometric path in the plane</entry>
+ <entry>open or closed geometric path in the plane</entry>
</row>
<row>
@@ -227,7 +227,7 @@ $PostgreSQL: pgsql/doc/src/sgml/datatype.sgml,v 1.148 2004/09/18 15:28:03 tgl Ex
<row>
<entry><type>timestamp [ (<replaceable>p</replaceable>) ] [ without time zone ]</type></entry>
- <entry><type>timestamp</type></entry>
+ <entry><type></type></entry>
<entry>date and time</entry>
</row>