PostgreSQL Bugs List wrote: > why is this feature important? > having in mind the development of datawarehouses with huge amount of > data (hundreds of millions, or billions of rows in fact tables) every > byte is of importance.
Yet how many applications could make use of the limited range that a 1-byte integer type would provide? Compared to the mess this would introduce into the resolution of numeric literals and functions, this seems to be of limited use. I suggest that you implement this as an extension module for your own use. 4-bit integers are out of the question. The architecture doesn't allow it. -- Peter Eisentraut http://developer.postgresql.org/~petere/ ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 8: explain analyze is your friend
