Craig Ringer <craig@postnewspapers.com.au> writes:
> On 04/10/2011 07:41 PM, Arash pajoohande wrote:
>> I wan to store a 10 digits integer in a column of table.
>> the data type does not need any arithmetic aperations (as of integers).
>> maybe its good to use bigint, but it is Postgres specific and is not
>> part of SQL standards
> int8 , which is just another name for bigint. I don't know what the SQL
> standard name for the data type is, but I'm pretty sure there is one.
> Anyone know the details?
SMALLINT and BIGINT are standardized type names in SQL:2003 and later.
regards, tom lane