Alan Millington wrote: > If you think that smallints are more bother than they are worth, perhaps you should remove support for smallints completely. Then people would know where they stood. (Or you could make smallint a synonym for int.) smallint can be used usefully -- you just need to know how and when. -- Alvaro Herrera http://www.CommandPrompt.com/ PostgreSQL Replication, Consulting, Custom Development, 24x7 support -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general