| From: | Decibel! <decibel(at)decibel(dot)org> |
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| To: | Gregory Stark <stark(at)enterprisedb(dot)com> |
| Cc: | "Michael Glaesemann" <grzm(at)seespotcode(dot)net>, "Alex Mayrhofer" <axelm(at)nona(dot)net>, <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: storage size of "bit" data type.. |
| Date: | 2007-12-06 23:35:13 |
| Message-ID: | 89C7452B-E92D-4FAF-8268-DD8FE55F0E4B@decibel.org |
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On Dec 6, 2007, at 5:10 PM, Gregory Stark wrote:
> It needs to store the number of bits present as well. Otherwise it
> wouldn't be
> able to tell apart B'1' and B'01' ... B'00000001'
...
> Only in the sense that numeric also has to store some meta data as
> well like
> the weight and display precision.
Hrm... perhaps that's another worthwhile target for the varvarlena
technique...
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