Re: tinyint and type problems

From: Joe Conway <mail(at)joeconway(dot)com>
To: Shachar Shemesh <psql(at)shemesh(dot)biz>
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: tinyint and type problems
Date: 2004-03-16 17:24:40
Message-ID: 40573858.6080707@joeconway.com
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Shachar Shemesh wrote:
> I'll stress again - I don't mind doing all the work associated with any
> once of the above choices. All I'm asking is that we agree on which one
> will be best for this project. As far as I'm concerned, Choice 2
> involves the least amount of work, but I think Choice 1 will serve
> everyone better.

Sorry for jumping into this thread so late, but if you don't really need
arithmetic operators, index support, and casts to all other numeric
types, why not use "char"?

Joe

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