> On 14 Nov 2022, at 20:12, PG Doc comments form <nore...@postgresql.org> wrote: > > The following documentation comment has been logged on the website: > > Page: https://www.postgresql.org/docs/15/datatype-uuid.html > Description: > > One can describe the size of datatypes in the common units of bits or bytes. > It'd be desirable to be consistent. Please reference these two pages... > https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/datatype-numeric.html (data types > sized in bytes) > and > https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/datatype-uuid.html (data type sized > in bits)
These are different things, the page with numeric types discuss the number of bytes used to store the values. UUIDs are defined in the RFC as 128-bit identifiers, which is related to but not by definition the same as the space used to store them in the database. -- Daniel Gustafsson https://vmware.com/
