| From: | Dennis Bjorklund <db(at)zigo(dot)dhs(dot)org> |
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| To: | Shachar Shemesh <psql(at)shemesh(dot)biz> |
| Cc: | PostgreSQL Patches <pgsql-patches(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: Defining a "tinyint" data type - one byte unsigned |
| Date: | 2004-03-11 06:16:35 |
| Message-ID: | Pine.LNX.4.44.0403110648010.13979-100000@zigo.dhs.org |
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On Thu, 11 Mar 2004, Shachar Shemesh wrote:
> >It's a bit strange that this int is unsigned and the others are signed.
> >
> Not that strange if you consider the fact that making it signed will not
> leave much room for actually using it.
>
> In any case, that's just the way it is:
> http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/tsqlref/ts_ia-iz_3ss4.asp
Well, in another very popular database it's signed:
http://www.mysql.com/documentation/mysql/bychapter/manual_Column_types.html#Numeric_types
If anything I would like a unsigned modifier to all integer types.
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/Dennis Björklund
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