Caleb Cushing <xenoterracide(at)gmail(dot)com> writes:
> On Wed, Jul 1, 2009 at 11:41 AM, Kevin
> Grittner<Kevin(dot)Grittner(at)wicourts(dot)gov> wrote:
>> Many databases
>> support a TINYINT type as a single-byte value, although I'm not sure
>> there's consistency on whether that's a signed or unsigned value.
> wouldn't any implementation in pg support both?
Introducing unsigned types into PG is a whole different discussion.
The problem there is designing reasonable automatic promotion rules.
Considering that C's rules still confuse people after nigh 40 years,
I'm not enthusiastic about it ...
regards, tom lane