| From: | "Jim C(dot) Nasby" <decibel(at)decibel(dot)org> |
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| To: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
| Cc: | Gregory Youngblood <pgcluster(at)netio(dot)org>, Christopher Kings-Lynne <chriskl(at)familyhealth(dot)com(dot)au>, Chris Travers <chris(at)travelamericas(dot)com>, Merlin Moncure <merlin(dot)moncure(at)rcsonline(dot)com>, PostgreSQL advocacy <pgsql-advocacy(at)postgresql(dot)org>, pgsql-general <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: [GENERAL] MySQL to PostgreSQL, was ENUM type |
| Date: | 2005-07-29 19:49:54 |
| Message-ID: | 20050729194954.GE95931@decibel.org |
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On Thu, Jul 28, 2005 at 12:53:07AM -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> Gregory Youngblood <pgcluster(at)netio(dot)org> writes:
> > ... the problem is unsigned bigint in mysql to postgresql.
> > There's not another larger integer size that can be used that would
> > allow the 18446744073709551615 (is that the max value?) max value
> > available in mysql. Or am I missing something?
>
> You'd have to translate that to NUMERIC, which would work but would
> take a bit of a performance hit ...
Is there any serious impediment to adding unsigned types to PostgreSQL?
They should be as readily supported as signed, right? I don't think
these would even have to be in core, if that's a concern.
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