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_18_STABLE
Tom Lane 1 month ago
parent f15c00e909
commit 31c09ef456
  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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