Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@commandprompt.com> writes:
> Excerpts from Tom Lane's message of vie mar 11 12:40:50 -0300 2011:
>> Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@commandprompt.com> writes:
>>> One idea is to rename the type to something else. We could keep "char"
>>> as an alias for backwards compatibility, but use the new name in system
>>> catalogs, and document it as the main name of the type.
>> We don't have type aliases...
> I meant the conversion we do from a certain name (say because it's the
> SQL-mandated name for the type) to the internal name, such as mapping
> integer to int4.
That works for keywords. "char" is, by definition, not a keyword.
regards, tom lane