""William ZHANG" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>" wrote in comp.databases.postgresql.hackers:
> I found the uses of int2, int16 and other similiar types misleading > in PostgreSQL's source code. Sometime it is difficult to figure out > which should be prefered. > > Maybe int2, int4, and int8 refer to database types, while int16, int32 > and int64 refer to C data types. If this is the convention, maintenance > may be easier. There's no difference: smallint = int2 = int16 integer = int4 = int32 largeint = int8 = int64 The single-digit types represent the number of "bytes" used to store the data, while the double-digit types represne the number if "bits." -- Randolf Richardson - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada Please do not eMail me directly when responding to my postings in the newsgroups. ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 1: subscribe and unsubscribe commands go to [EMAIL PROTECTED]