| From: | Dennis Gearon <gearond(at)fireserve(dot)net> |
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| To: | elein <elein(at)varlena(dot)com> |
| Cc: | Manfred Koizar <mkoi-pg(at)aon(dot)at>, CSN <cool_screen_name90001(at)yahoo(dot)com>, pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: int1? types? |
| Date: | 2003-10-11 03:18:31 |
| Message-ID: | 3F877687.2040406@fireserve.net |
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elein wrote:
>I think I was thinking of how it is passed around internally,
>the C representation, rather than how it is stored on the disk.
>These are different things.
>
>So, one byte user defined data types are possible. And that
>means that the *storage* will be one byte (modulo alignment).
>
>
The compiler is free to word order them as it pleases, that is why there
is the command 'sizeof'.
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