Re: Did this work in earlier version of Postgres?

On Thu, 2006-03-23 at 16:05 -0800, Joshua D. Drake wrote:
> Rod Taylor wrote:
> > On Thu, 2006-03-23 at 17:31 -0600, Tony Caduto wrote:
> >> I could have swore that this worked in earlier releases of Postgresql 
> >> i.e. 7.4.
> >>
> >> CREATE TABLE public.test
> >> (
> >> junk double NOT NULL,
> >> CONSTRAINT junk_pkey PRIMARY KEY (junk)
> >> )WITHOUT OIDS;
> >>
> >> Now it gives a error that type double does not exist.
> > 
> > CREATE DOMAIN double AS float8;
> > 
> > There, now the type exists ;)
> 
> That's a little too perl for me ;)

I suppose it depends on the goal. If it is an application that is to be
supported on more than one database, defining types and other things for
a given DB type (PostgreSQL) is easier than injecting a large number of
SWITCH statements into the code.

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