On Tue, 2008-01-29 at 13:20 -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
> The reason it was kept was to override the search path --- unqualified
> NUMERIC will always be taken as pg_catalog.numeric even if you have some
> other type "numeric" in front of it.
It should be possible to implement this behavior without requiring
NUMERIC to be a keyword, though.
-Neil
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