Added to TODO:
* Reduce BIT data type overhead using short varlena headers
http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-general/2007-12/msg00273.php
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Decibel! wrote:
> On Dec 5, 2007, at 7:23 PM, Michael Glaesemann wrote:
>
> It needs to store the number of bits present as well
Couldn't that be reduced to 1 byte that'd say how many bits count in the
last byte?
> Only in the sense that numeric also has to store some meta data as well
like
the weight and display precision.
Is it really necessary to store display prec
On Dec 6, 2007, at 5:10 PM, Gregory Stark wrote:
It needs to store the number of bits present as well. Otherwise it
wouldn't be
able to tell apart B'1' and B'01' ... B'0001'
...
Only in the sense that numeric also has to store some meta data as
well like
the weight and display precision
On Dec 6, 2007, at 5:19 PM, Vyacheslav Kalinin wrote:
> It needs to store the number of bits present as well
Couldn't that be reduced to 1 byte that'd say how many bits count
in the last byte?
> Only in the sense that numeric also has to store some meta data
as well like
the weight and di
"Decibel!" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> On Dec 5, 2007, at 7:23 PM, Michael Glaesemann wrote:
>> On Dec 5, 2007, at 14:19 , Alex Mayrhofer wrote:
>>> i'm trying to find out the storage size for bit(n) data. My initial
>>> assumption would be that for any 8 bits, one byte of storage is required.
On Dec 5, 2007, at 7:23 PM, Michael Glaesemann wrote:
On Dec 5, 2007, at 14:19 , Alex Mayrhofer wrote:
i'm trying to find out the storage size for bit(n) data. My
initial assumption would be that for any 8 bits, one byte of
storage is required.
select pg_column_size(B'1') as "1bit",
On Dec 5, 2007, at 14:19 , Alex Mayrhofer wrote:
Hi,
i'm trying to find out the storage size for bit(n) data. My initial
assumption would be that for any 8 bits, one byte of storage is
required.
select pg_column_size(B'1') as "1bit",
pg_column_size(B'') as "4bits",
pg_c
Hi,
i'm trying to find out the storage size for bit(n) data. My initial
assumption would be that for any 8 bits, one byte of storage is required.
Is this assumption correct? I didn't find that information in the online
docs.
thanks,
Alex
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