Hello all,

I've read several sources including

http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.3/s...e-numeric.html

There doesn't really seem to be a byte type in standard SQL. Is this
true? Note I'm looking for a general discussion, not a PostgrSQL
solution.

Karsten

Karsten Wutzke wrote:
The page you quoted does not seem to assert anything like that,
or have I missed something?

Anyway, I looked up in the SQL Standard, and ISO/IEC 9075 Part 2
says in chapter 4.4.1:

A numeric type is described by a numeric type descriptor.
A numeric type descriptor contains:
- The name of the specific numeric type (NUMERIC, DECIMAL, SMALLINT,
INTEGER, BIGINT, FLOAT, REAL, or DOUBLE PRECISION).
[...]

So the answer to your question is "yes".

Yours,
Laurenz Albe