Re: [GENERAL] MySQL to PostgreSQL, was ENUM type

On Fri, Jul 29, 2005 at 02:49:54PM -0500, Jim C. Nasby wrote:
> 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.

Tom mentioned a couple of days ago that the worst problems that would be
created by adding more numeric types are solved as of 8.1.

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