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* Consistency of units (bits vs bytes)
@ 2022-11-14 19:12 PG Doc comments form <noreply@postgresql.org>
2022-11-15 10:15 ` Re: Consistency of units (bits vs bytes) Daniel Gustafsson <daniel@yesql.se>
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From: PG Doc comments form @ 2022-11-14 19:12 UTC (permalink / raw)
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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)
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* Re: Consistency of units (bits vs bytes)
2022-11-14 19:12 Consistency of units (bits vs bytes) PG Doc comments form <noreply@postgresql.org>
@ 2022-11-15 10:15 ` Daniel Gustafsson <daniel@yesql.se>
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From: Daniel Gustafsson @ 2022-11-15 10:15 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: troy@frericks.us; pgsql-docs@lists.postgresql.org
> On 14 Nov 2022, at 20:12, PG Doc comments form <noreply@postgresql.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.
--
Daniel Gustafsson https://vmware.com/
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