Re: Single character bitfields - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Joshua Drake
Subject Re: Single character bitfields
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Msg-id 20080820195644.742efb49@jd-laptop
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In response to Single character bitfields  ("Andrew Maclean" <andrew.amaclean@gmail.com>)
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Re: Single character bitfields
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On Thu, 21 Aug 2008 12:40:29 +1000
"Andrew Maclean" <andrew.amaclean@gmail.com> wrote:

> I have a large database and I want to have several fields (among many)
> that are single character fields (in fact they are bitfields).
>
> 1) Is char(1) the most efficient way to store these fields? If not
> what is better?

boolean?

Joshua D. Drake

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