Re: Postgres do not support tinyint? - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Christophe Pettus
Subject Re: Postgres do not support tinyint?
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In response to Re: Postgres do not support tinyint?  (Igor Korot <ikorot01@gmail.com>)
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> On Jan 8, 2025, at 11:30, Igor Korot <ikorot01@gmail.com> wrote:
> There is no boolean - it is 0-4 inclusive.

Unless you have somehow gotten PostgreSQL running on an IBM 7070, the range 0-4 can be represented by three binary
digits,aka booleans. :-) 

To be serious, though, the situation is:

1. If there are just one or two tinyints, having a tinyint type wouldn't save any space in the row.
2. If there are a lot of them, it's worth encoding them into a bitstring.


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