Re: Dumb question about serial's upper limit

On Mon, Oct 10, 2005 at 11:52:40PM -0700, Dann Corbit wrote:
> How about something like:
>
> CREATE DOMAIN unsigned_small AS smallint check (VALUE >= 0)
>
> CREATE DOMAIN unsigned_int AS integer check (VALUE >= 0)
>
> CREATE DOMAIN unsigned_big AS bigint check (VALUE >= 0)
>
> The objection might be that we lose one bit of field width.
> But the extra safety is probably worth it if you really need unsigned
> and want to avoid ambiguity.

Certainly. But I was more interested in the space. :P
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