[DOCS] PATH no longer a part of 7.4?

2004-02-10 Thread Dan Langille
The Geometric data types listed at http://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/static/datatype-geometric.html include a data type known as "path". I do not see this data type in my 7.4 installation. Which is wrong? The documentation or the code? Cheers -- Dan Langille : http://www.langille.org/

Re: [DOCS] PATH no longer a part of 7.4?

2004-02-10 Thread Tom Lane
"Dan Langille" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > The Geometric data types listed at > http://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/static/datatype-geometric.html > include a data type known as "path". I do not see this data type in > my 7.4 installation. You don't? regression=# select * from pg_type wh

Re: [DOCS] PATH no longer a part of 7.4?

2004-02-10 Thread Bruce Momjian
Dan Langille wrote: > The Geometric data types listed at > http://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/static/datatype-geometric.html > include a data type known as "path". I do not see this data type in > my 7.4 installation. > > Which is wrong? The documentation or the code? It is in CVS:

Re: [DOCS] PATH no longer a part of 7.4?

2004-02-10 Thread Dan Langille
On 10 Feb 2004 at 10:09, Bruce Momjian wrote: > Dan Langille wrote: > > The Geometric data types listed at > > http://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/static/datatype-geometric.html > > include a data type known as "path". I do not see this data type in > > my 7.4 installation. > > > > Which i

Re: [DOCS] PATH no longer a part of 7.4?

2004-02-10 Thread Tom Lane
"Dan Langille" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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,

Re: [DOCS] PATH no longer a part of 7.4?

2004-02-10 Thread Tom Lane
"Dan Langille" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hmmm, for a 7.2 user, is there any solution? Apart from "drop type > path"? We'd rather not rename the table. Upgrade, or rename the path type to something else. (Not sure if there are any bad consequences of renaming the path type. It'd probably b

Re: [DOCS] PATH no longer a part of 7.4?

2004-02-10 Thread Dan Langille
On 10 Feb 2004 at 11:32, Tom Lane wrote: > "Dan Langille" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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