On Wed, Jul 06, 2005 at 11:30:52PM +0200, Dawid Kuroczko wrote:
> If you ask here, you'll probably get a good explanation why there
> aren't unsinged types. My guess is that unsigned types add
> complexity which is not really judged by their usefullness, but
> thats only a guess.
Yeah, they are against the SQL standard apparently; and we've got enough
problems with cross-datatype coercion that there's not much interest in
making it worse by adding more types.
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Alvaro Herrera (<alvherre[a]alvh.no-ip.org>)
"Some men are heterosexual, and some are bisexual, and some
men don't think about sex at all... they become lawyers" (Woody Allen)
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