On Aug 20, 2008, at 7:56 PM, Joshua Drake wrote:

I have a large database and I want to have several fields (among many)
that are single character fields (in fact they are bitfields).

boolean?

Out of curiosity, does postgres collapse multiple boolean columns to a bitfield internally? In other words, I guess I assume a single boolean column will always take 1 byte of space... but if I have 8 boolean columns, will they all fit into that 1 byte?

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