-473   A USER DEFINED DATA TYPE CANNOT BE CALLED THE SAME NAME AS A SYSTEM PREDEFINED TYPE (BUILT-IN TYPE)

Explanation

The name of a data type to be created has an unqualified name that is the same as a system-predefined data type. The name that you specified is not allowed. Adding delimiters does not make the name valid. The following names are restricted:
BIGINT DECIMAL REF
BINARY DECFLOAT ROWID
BLOB DOUBLE SMALLINT
BOOLEAN DOUBLE PRECISION TIME
CHAR FLOAT TIMESTAMP
CHAR VARYING GRAPHIC VARBINARY
CHARACTER INT VARCHAR
CHARACTER VARYING INTEGER VARGRAPHIC
CLOB LONG VARCHAR XML
DATALINK LONG VARGRAPHIC  
DATE NUMERIC  
DBCLOB REAL  
DEC ROWID  

System action

The statement cannot be processed.

Programmer response

Correct the statement to use another identifier for the name of the new user-defined type.

SQLSTATE

42918