From 31c09ef4563612467b31149713896948e5532684 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Date: Thu, 7 Aug 2025 18:04:45 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] doc: add float as an alias for double precision.

Although the "Floating-Point Types" section says that "float" data
type is taken to mean "double precision", this information was not
reflected in the data type table that lists all data type aliases.

Reported-by: alexander.kjall@hafslund.no
Author: Euler Taveira <euler@eulerto.com>
Reviewed-by: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/175456294638.800.12038559679827947313@wrigleys.postgresql.org
Backpatch-through: 13
---
 doc/src/sgml/datatype.sgml | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/datatype.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/datatype.sgml
index 09309ba0390..83392220736 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/datatype.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/datatype.sgml
@@ -117,7 +117,7 @@
 
       <row>
        <entry><type>double precision</type></entry>
-       <entry><type>float8</type></entry>
+       <entry><type>float</type>, <type>float8</type></entry>
        <entry>double precision floating-point number (8 bytes)</entry>
       </row>