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Re: single bit integer (TINYINT) revisited for 8.5

Greg Stark <gsstark@mit.edu>

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From: Greg Stark <gsstark@mit.edu>
To: Caleb Cushing <xenoterracide@gmail.com>
Cc: Josh Berkus <josh@agliodbs.com>, pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org
Date: 2009-07-02T00:41:29Z
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Incidentally there *is* a single-byte integer data type in Postgres,
it's called "char" (the quote marks are necessary in SQL due to the
char(n) data type).

It's a bit weird though, mainly because its output format is to output
ascii characters -- kind of like how C's single-byte integer data type
is mainly used to hold ascii characters...