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
REL_17_STABLE
Tom Lane 1 month ago
parent 45e7ad980e
commit 13244ba103
  1. 2
      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>

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