Matt Clark wrote:
> Is there a way to define an alias or synonym for a data type?
>
> I have an existing schema (from a Sybase DB), which defines a datatype via the
> SQLServer method:
>
> EXEC sp_addtype XID, 'numeric(16,0)' , 'NULL';
>
Take a look at DOMAINs:
http://www.us.postgresql.org/users-lounge/docs/7.3/postgres/sql-createdomain.html
HTH,
Joe