Method InformationSchemaName

pkg/sql/types/types.go:1302–1308

InformationSchemaName returns the string suitable to populate the data_type column of information_schema.columns. This is different from SQLString() in that it must report SQL standard names that are compatible with PostgreSQL client expectations.

()

// This is different from SQLString() in that it must report SQL standard names
// that are compatible with PostgreSQL client expectations.
func (t *T) InformationSchemaName() string {
	// This is the same as SQLStandardName, except for the case of arrays.
	if t.Family() == ArrayFamily {
		return "ARRAY"
	}
	return t.SQLStandardName()
}

// SQLString returns the CockroachDB native SQL string that can be used to
// reproduce the type via parsing the string as a type. It is used in error