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@ 2025-01-08 06:26 Igor Korot <[email protected]>
2025-01-08 06:28 ` Re: Postgres do not support tinyint? Christophe Pettus <[email protected]>
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From: Igor Korot @ 2025-01-08 06:26 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Ron Johnson <[email protected]>; pgsql-generallists.postgresql.org <[email protected]>
Hi, Ron,
On Tue, Jan 7, 2025 at 11:24 PM Ron Johnson <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> On Wed, Jan 8, 2025 at 12:06 AM Igor Korot <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>> Hi, ALL,
>> According to https://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.1/datatype-numeric.html, the
>> smallest numeric type supports numbers from -32768 to 32767/
>>
>> My data will be in a range of [0..4], and so I guess my DB table will waste
>> space, right?
>
>
> 1. It's not 1994 anymore, when 8M rows was enormous.
> 2. Record structures are padded by word size, so tinyint wouldn't matter unless you specifically ordered the fixed width columns from largest to smallest size when creating the table.
> 3. The "bit" type might serve your needs.
I don't see the "bit" field here:
https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/datatype-numeric.html...
Thank you..
>
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2025-01-08 06:26 Re: Postgres do not support tinyint? Igor Korot <[email protected]>
@ 2025-01-08 06:28 ` Christophe Pettus <[email protected]>
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From: Christophe Pettus @ 2025-01-08 06:28 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Igor Korot <[email protected]>; +Cc: Ron Johnson <[email protected]>; pgsql-generallists.postgresql.org <[email protected]>
> On Jan 7, 2025, at 22:26, Igor Korot <[email protected]> wrote:
> I don't see the "bit" field here:
> https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/datatype-numeric.html...
https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/datatype-bit.html
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