| From: | "David G(dot) Johnston" <david(dot)g(dot)johnston(at)gmail(dot)com> |
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| Subject: | Re: Specify bytes storage for enum data types |
| Date: | 2022-05-05 12:30:58 |
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On Wednesday, May 4, 2022, 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/14/datatype-enum.html
> Description:
>
> I love Postgres !! And also its documentation !!
>
> While reading through data types, it occurred to me that most ( if not
> every
> ) other data types has a chart on the top saying how many bytes it
> occuies.
> Like all numerical, date or char data types.
>
> For enum it would be nice to have that info as well.
> I am assuming it is variable ? May be 1 or 2 bytes for the definition and
> the rest depending on the enum values ?
>
> A clarification would be nice !
>
Second to last sentence on the page.
Storage only measures the size of a single value on a data row.
David J.
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