Excerpts from Tom Lane's message of vie mar 11 12:40:50 -0300 2011:
> Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@commandprompt.com> writes:
> > One idea is to rename the type to something else. We could keep "char"
> > as an alias for backwards compatibility, but use the new name in system
> > catalogs, and document it as the main name of the type.
>
> We don't have type aliases...
I meant the conversion we do from a certain name (say because it's the
SQL-mandated name for the type) to the internal name, such as mapping
integer to int4.
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