[wp-hackers] PostgreSQL port status?

Tom Barta tbarta at gmail.com
Fri Sep 28 12:58:58 GMT 2007


> is there anyone who can explain why there are about 6 integer types in
> the schema?
>  - bigint(10)
>  - bigint(20)
>  - tinyint(1)
>  - int(11)
>  - int(4)
>  - unsigned

BIGINT may be necessary to support larger sequences/auto-increments,
and TINYINT(1) IIRC is a boolean flag.  Other than that, it's another
baby step towards MySQL lock-in (^:

-- 
Tom


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