On 10 Feb 2004 at 11:32, Tom Lane wrote:
> "Dan Langille" <dan@langille.org> writes:
> > Here is how this issue arose. A user of [ 7.2.something ]
> > is getting this error when creating a table named path.
>
> Right, in 7.2 the rowtype for such a table would conflict with the
> predefined type.
>
> > I've been able to create this table under 7.4.1, 7.4, and 7.3.4 (but
> > have no other versions under which I can test).
>
> In 7.3 and later there is no conflict, because the predefined type name
> lives in the pg_catalog schema, which is not where user tables are
> customarily created.
Hmmm, for a 7.2 user, is there any solution? Apart from "drop type
path"? We'd rather not rename the table.
--
Dan Langille : http://www.langille.org/
BSDCan - http://www.bsdcan.org/