Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> Dave Page wrote:
>
>>> It's not a error, pgAdmin III simply does not display the
>>> word integer in it's drop down comboboxes, it uses all the
>>> internal representation of types not the SQL standard aliases.
>>>
>> Which allows you to use any custom datatype or domain that you like.
>>
>
> That is completely unrelated. If pgadmin (or any tool) passed the data
> types it presumably fetches from pg_type or thereabouts through the
> format_type function it could present the user with a full list of
> actually available data types but in their preferred spellings.
>
>
Yes, PG Lightning Admin uses the format_type function, though I modify
some of the returned pretty names.
I change "character varying" back to varchar etc.
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