Re: BUG #2802: Feature request: tinyint and unsigned types

From: Stephen Frost <sfrost(at)snowman(dot)net>
To: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>
Cc: pgsql-bugs(at)postgresql(dot)org, Albert Strasheim <fullung(at)gmail(dot)com>, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Jim Nasby <decibel(at)decibel(dot)org>, Bruno Wolff III <bruno(at)wolff(dot)to>
Subject: Re: BUG #2802: Feature request: tinyint and unsigned types
Date: 2006-12-10 21:13:59
Message-ID: 20061210211359.GK24675@kenobi.snowman.net
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* Peter Eisentraut (peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net) wrote:
> Albert Strasheim wrote:
> > Agreed. Some variables I had wanted to make tinyints could be
> > expressed as enumerated values. Other variables I wanted to express
> > as unsigned ints or tinyints or unsigned tinyints to model the
> > possible values
> > from the problem domain as succinctly as possible.
>
> Then use domains.

Or constraints...

Stephen

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