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_16_STABLE
Tom Lane 1 month ago
parent 2ac50f1187
commit 3a3b1d7ab1
  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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