Re: int1? types? - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Dennis Gearon
Subject Re: int1? types?
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In response to Re: int1? types?  (elein <elein@varlena.com>)
List pgsql-general
elein wrote:

>I think I was thinking of how it is passed around internally,
>the C representation, rather than how it is stored on the disk.
>These are different things.
>
>So, one byte user defined data types are possible. And that
>means that the *storage* will be one byte (modulo alignment).
>
>
The compiler is free to word order them as it pleases, that is why there
is the command 'sizeof'.

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