On Fri, Jun 18, 2010 at 12:59 PM, Andrew Dunstan <and...@dunslane.net> wrote: > You are just bumping up the storage cost. Part of the attraction of enums is > their efficiency.
What's efficient about them? Aren't we using 4 bytes to store a value that will nearly always fit in 2, if not 1? -- Robert Haas EnterpriseDB: http://www.enterprisedb.com The Enterprise Postgres Company -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers