system.data_type_families

System table containing information about supported data types

Description

Contains information about supported data types.

Columns

• name (String) — Data type name.
• case_insensitive (UInt8) — Property that shows whether you can use a data type name in a query in case insensitive manner or not. For example, Date and date are both valid.
• alias_to (String) — Data type name for which name is an alias.
• description (String) — A high-level description of what the data type is.
• syntax (String) — How the data type is spelled in a query.
• examples (String) — Usage examples.
• introduced_in (String) — The ClickHouse version in which the data type was first introduced, in the form major.minor.
• related (Array(String)) — The names of related data types.

Example

SELECT name, case_insensitive, alias_to FROM system.data_type_families WHERE alias_to = 'String'

┌─name───────┬─case_insensitive─┬─alias_to─┐
│ LONGBLOB   │                1 │ String   │
│ LONGTEXT   │                1 │ String   │
│ TINYTEXT   │                1 │ String   │
│ TEXT       │                1 │ String   │
│ VARCHAR    │                1 │ String   │
│ MEDIUMBLOB │                1 │ String   │
│ BLOB       │                1 │ String   │
│ TINYBLOB   │                1 │ String   │
│ CHAR       │                1 │ String   │
│ MEDIUMTEXT │                1 │ String   │
└────────────┴──────────────────┴──────────┘

See also

• Syntax — Information about supported syntax.