| From: | Sean Chittenden <sean(at)chittenden(dot)org> |
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| To: | Josh Berkus <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com> |
| Cc: | David Wheeler <david(at)kineticode(dot)com>, sfpug(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: String Translation |
| Date: | 2003-10-16 17:59:59 |
| Message-ID: | 20031016175959.GD86551@perrin.nxad.com |
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> David,
>
> > active NUMERIC(1,0) NOT NULL
> > DEFAULT 1
> > CONSTRAINT ck_sd_tile__active
> > CHECK (active IN (0,1)),
>
> Why is this field NUMERIC if it only accepts 0 or 1? NUMERIC takes
> up seven times the storage and memory as INT2 would.
Or for that matter, use BOOL and save another byte as BOOL is only one
byte on disk. -sc
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Sean Chittenden
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