From: Daniel Gustafsson <daniel@yesql.se>
To: troy@frericks.us
To: pgsql-docs@lists.postgresql.org
Subject: Re: Consistency of units (bits vs bytes)
Date: Tue, 15 Nov 2022 11:15:51 +0100
Message-ID: <A38B4156-5818-4F28-8AC1-CBAA48757026@yesql.se> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <166845317039.635.6194510047097701846@wrigleys.postgresql.org>
References: <166845317039.635.6194510047097701846@wrigleys.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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