From 05911de4dabd2ab35a6017707cc4affade3d413c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>
Date: Sat, 23 Dec 2006 01:28:09 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] Document that CREATE TYPE names should not begin with an
underscore, rather than being disallowed.
---
doc/src/sgml/ref/create_type.sgml | 6 +++---
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/ref/create_type.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/ref/create_type.sgml
index 64880d80766..e85c94dbe74 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/ref/create_type.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/ref/create_type.sgml
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
<!--
-$PostgreSQL: pgsql/doc/src/sgml/ref/create_type.sgml,v 1.64 2006/09/16 00:30:17 momjian Exp $
+$PostgreSQL: pgsql/doc/src/sgml/ref/create_type.sgml,v 1.65 2006/12/23 01:28:09 momjian Exp $
PostgreSQL documentation
-->
@@ -452,8 +452,8 @@ CREATE TYPE <replaceable class="parameter">name</replaceable>
<title>Notes</title>
<para>
- User-defined type names cannot begin with the underscore character
- (<literal>_</literal>) and can only be 62 characters
+ User-defined type names should not begin with the underscore character
+ (<literal>_</literal>) and should only be 62 characters
long (or in general <symbol>NAMEDATALEN</symbol> - 2, rather than
the <symbol>NAMEDATALEN</symbol> - 1 characters allowed for other
names). Type names beginning with underscore are reserved for
--
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