On Mon, Nov 11, 2013 at 6:35 PM, Guy Rouillier <guy.rouill...@gmail.com>wrote:
> On 11/11/2013 7:14 PM, Melvin Call wrote: > >> Good evening, >> >> I could swear I read somewhere that the default integer size on 64-bit >> systems running 9.1 is eight bytes, or the equivalent of a bigint. But >> reading through the user guide it seems that it is indeed still just >> four-bytes. Can anyone verify that for me, or point me to a way to >> verify it? I see nothing in pg_settings which is where I thought to >> look. Not a big deal, I just need to know for the data dictionary. >> > > The documentation seems pretty clear on integer data types: > > http://www.enterprisedb.com/docs/en/9.2/pg/datatype- > numeric.html#DATATYPE-INT > > From the documentation, the range of integer data types is not > platform-specific, other than for warning about BIGINT. Perhaps you are > remembering compiler documentation, where the default integer size > typically *is* platform-dependent? > > -- > Guy Rouillier Thanks Guy. Some dumb notion that I came up with somewhere in the past. I appreciate y'all setting me straight. Melvin
