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Re: Porting MySQL data types to PostgreSQL

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On Jul 25, 2007, at 20:55 , Gautam Sampathkumar wrote:


Thank you for your answer. Do you know why a choice was made to
not include support for unsigned in PostgreSQL?


If I'm reading my draft copy of the SQL:2003 standard, SQL only specifies SMALLINT, INTEGER, and BIGINT integer types. There are no unsigned integer types in the standard. While PostgreSQL does have datatypes which extend the SQL standard, either no one has felt the need for an unsigned data type or it has not been accepted by core. You could check the mailing list archives for details if you wish.

Michael Glaesemann
grzm seespotcode net




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