Re: [PATCHES] NUMERIC key word

2008-02-10 Thread Neil Conway
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

Re: [PATCHES] NUMERIC key word

2008-02-10 Thread Tom Lane
Neil Conway [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: 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

Re: [PATCHES] NUMERIC key word

2008-01-29 Thread Tom Lane
Peter Eisentraut [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: In 8.3, it appears that NUMERIC doesn't need to be a key word any longer. See attached patch. Was there a reason this was kept in the parser? Otherwise we could remove it in 8.4. The reason it was kept was to override the search path ---