From: | Daniel Gustafsson <daniel(at)yesql(dot)se> |
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To: | troy(at)frericks(dot)us, pgsql-docs(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org |
Subject: | Re: Consistency of units (bits vs bytes) |
Date: | 2022-11-15 10:15:51 |
Message-ID: | A38B4156-5818-4F28-8AC1-CBAA48757026@yesql.se |
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> On 14 Nov 2022, at 20:12, PG Doc comments form <noreply(at)postgresql(dot)org> wrote:
>
> The following documentation comment has been logged on the website:
>
> Page: https://www.postgresql.org/docs/15/datatype-uuid.html
> Description:
>
> One can describe the size of datatypes in the common units of bits or bytes.
> It'd be desirable to be consistent. Please reference these two pages...
> https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/datatype-numeric.html (data types
> sized in bytes)
> and
> https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/datatype-uuid.html (data type sized
> in bits)
These are different things, the page with numeric types discuss the number of
bytes used to store the values. UUIDs are defined in the RFC as 128-bit
identifiers, which is related to but not by definition the same as the space
used to store them in the database.
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Daniel Gustafsson https://vmware.com/
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