Re: Specify bytes storage for enum data types
Thanks David. I overlooked that at the bottom. I guess it would still be nice to mention the storage at the top like other data types. From: David G. Johnston Sent: Thursday, May 5, 2022 8:30 AM To: ssengu...@hotmail.com ; pgsql-docs@lists.postgresql.org Subject: Re: Specify bytes storage for enum data types On Wednesday, May 4, 2022, PG Doc comments form mailto:nore...@postgresql.org>> wrote: The following documentation comment has been logged on the website: Page: https://www.postgresql.org/docs/14/datatype-enum.html Description: I love Postgres !! And also its documentation !! While reading through data types, it occurred to me that most ( if not every ) other data types has a chart on the top saying how many bytes it occuies. Like all numerical, date or char data types. For enum it would be nice to have that info as well. I am assuming it is variable ? May be 1 or 2 bytes for the definition and the rest depending on the enum values ? A clarification would be nice ! Second to last sentence on the page. Storage only measures the size of a single value on a data row. David J.
Re: Specify bytes storage for enum data types
On Wednesday, May 4, 2022, PG Doc comments form wrote: > The following documentation comment has been logged on the website: > > Page: https://www.postgresql.org/docs/14/datatype-enum.html > Description: > > I love Postgres !! And also its documentation !! > > While reading through data types, it occurred to me that most ( if not > every > ) other data types has a chart on the top saying how many bytes it > occuies. > Like all numerical, date or char data types. > > For enum it would be nice to have that info as well. > I am assuming it is variable ? May be 1 or 2 bytes for the definition and > the rest depending on the enum values ? > > A clarification would be nice ! > Second to last sentence on the page. Storage only measures the size of a single value on a data row. David J.
Specify bytes storage for enum data types
The following documentation comment has been logged on the website: Page: https://www.postgresql.org/docs/14/datatype-enum.html Description: I love Postgres !! And also its documentation !! While reading through data types, it occurred to me that most ( if not every ) other data types has a chart on the top saying how many bytes it occuies. Like all numerical, date or char data types. For enum it would be nice to have that info as well. I am assuming it is variable ? May be 1 or 2 bytes for the definition and the rest depending on the enum values ? A clarification would be nice ! Thanks - Sumit Sengupta
