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
PostgreSQL Database Management System
This directory contains the source code distribution of the PostgreSQL database management system.
PostgreSQL is an advanced object-relational database management system that supports an extended subset of the SQL standard, including transactions, foreign keys, subqueries, triggers, user-defined types and functions. This distribution also contains C language bindings.
Copyright and license information can be found in the file COPYRIGHT.
General documentation about this version of PostgreSQL can be found at https://www.postgresql.org/docs/18/. In particular, information about building PostgreSQL from the source code can be found at https://www.postgresql.org/docs/18/installation.html.
The latest version of this software, and related software, may be obtained at https://www.postgresql.org/download/. For more information look at our web site located at https://www.postgresql.org/.