Decibel! <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Be that as it may, I suspect that if someone puts forward a working set
> of uint2/4/8 it'd be considered for inclusion.
The datatypes themselves are utterly trivial. The hard part, if you
want them to be part of the numeric hierarchy, is figuring out what t
On Wed, Aug 01, 2007 at 05:19:33AM -, Patrick TJ McPhee wrote:
> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> Tom Lane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> % [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Patrick TJ McPhee) writes:
> % > One problem with this idea is the treatment of implicit casts between
> % > numeric types in TypeCategor
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Tom Lane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
% [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Patrick TJ McPhee) writes:
% > One problem with this idea is the treatment of implicit casts between
% > numeric types in TypeCategory(). For implicit casts to work, the type's
% > OID has to be listed in that
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Patrick TJ McPhee) writes:
> One problem with this idea is the treatment of implicit casts between
> numeric types in TypeCategory(). For implicit casts to work, the type's
> OID has to be listed in that function (i.e., it has to be a built-in type).
That's not the case. There
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Jim Nasby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
% On Jul 26, 2007, at 11:06 AM, Jeff Davis wrote:
% > If you really do need an unsigned type, this is a good use of
% > postgresql's extensible type system. You can just create an unsigned
% > type for yourself.
%
% If you do tha
On Jul 26, 2007, at 11:06 AM, Jeff Davis wrote:
If you really do need an unsigned type, this is a good use of
postgresql's extensible type system. You can just create an unsigned
type for yourself.
If you do that please start a project on pgfoundry so others can
contribute and benefit. In fac
On Tue, 2007-07-24 at 10:47 -0700, Gautam Sampathkumar wrote:
> 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
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On Jul 25, 2007, at 20:55 , Gautam Sampathkumar wrote:
Thank you for your answer. Do you know why a choice w
On Jul 24, 2007, at 12:47 , Gautam Sampathkumar wrote:
Does this mean I'd have to essentially double the space occupied by
most
database columns e.g convert mysql integer to postgresql bigint?
Only if your unsigned 4-byte integers actually exceed 2,147,483,647.
I suppose you could also us
