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

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Gregory Youngblood <pgcluster(at)netio(dot)org>
Cc: 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>, "Jim C(dot) Nasby" <decibel(at)decibel(dot)org>, 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: 2005-07-28 04:53:07
Message-ID: 20242.1122526387@sss.pgh.pa.us
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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 ...

regards, tom lane

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