| From: | Stephan Szabo <sszabo(at)megazone(dot)bigpanda(dot)com> |
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| To: | Sean Chittenden <sean(at)chittenden(dot)org> |
| Cc: | CSN <cool_screen_name90001(at)yahoo(dot)com>, pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: int1? |
| Date: | 2003-10-09 14:59:55 |
| Message-ID: | 20031009075650.M61245@megazone.bigpanda.com |
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On Thu, 9 Oct 2003, Sean Chittenden wrote:
> > Is there any date type that can be used for 0-255
> > values? Like an "int1" or byte column.
>
> A SMALLINT is two bytes on disk, use "char" instead. This is a hidden
However "char" has some serious deficiencies IIRC, such as the fact that
there's no int<->"char" casts and it's standard I/O format is characters.
You can use ascii and chr to get around some of that, but it's ugly.
> goodie in PostgreSQL and one that I wish was exposed via a more
> conventional syntax (*hint hint*).
If we were going to do that I think we'd be better off making a new type
and leaving "char" alone.
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