Porting MySQL data types to PostgreSQL

From: "Gautam Sampathkumar" <gsampathkumar(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Porting MySQL data types to PostgreSQL
Date: 2007-07-24 17:47:44
Message-ID: 9c2b3cc80707241047o2a05e334mcf101509c81500a4@mail.gmail.com
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Hi,
I am in the process of porting a MySQL database to PostgreSQL.
I was wondering why PostgreSQL does not support unsigned data types?

Does this mean I'd have to essentially double the space occupied by most
database columns e.g convert mysql integer to postgresql bigint?

thanks,
Gautam

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