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From: David G. Johnston <[email protected]>
To: [email protected] <[email protected]>
To: [email protected] <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: Specify bytes storage for enum data types
Date: Thu, 5 May 2022 05:30:58 -0700
Message-ID: <CAKFQuwauVwwr7_3zYtM3ACEJfQN+LimohSFGKX5opAs3CH2Liw@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
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On Wednesday, May 4, 2022, PG Doc comments form <[email protected]>
wrote:

> The following documentation comment has been logged on the website:
>
> Page: https://www.postgresql.org/docs/14/datatype-enum.html
> Description:
>
> I love Postgres !! And also its documentation !!
>
> While reading through data types, it occurred to me that most ( if not
> every
> ) other data types has a chart on the top saying how many bytes it
> occuies.
> Like all numerical, date or char data types.
>
> For enum it would be nice to have that info as well.
> I am assuming it is variable ? May be 1 or 2 bytes for the definition and
> the rest depending on the enum values ?
>
> A clarification would be nice !
>

Second to last sentence on the page.

Storage only measures the size of a single value on a data row.

David J.

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