Name Aliases Description polygon closed geometric path on a plane real float4 single precision floating-point number (4 bytes) smallint int2 signed two-byte integer smallserial serial2 autoincrementing two-byte integer serial serial4 autoincrementing four-byte integer text variable-length character string time [ (p) ] [ without time zone ] time of day (no time zone) time [ (p) ] with time zone timetz time of day, including time zone timestamp [ (p) ] [ with- out time zone ] date and time (no time zone) timestamp [ (p) ] with time zone timestamptz date and time, including time zone tsquery text search query tsvector text search document txid_snapshot user-level transaction ID snapshot (deprecated; see pg_snapshot) uuid universally unique identifier xml XML data