[imp] tinyint, why not smallint or int2?

[Chuck Hagenbuch]

Quoting Martín Marqués <martin@bugs.unl.edu.ar>:

> I'm looking at the category.sql, and I see that there are tinyint data types,
> which I can guess that are MySQL's equivalent to INT2 or SMALLINT.
> Can't this be compatible to all databases? I think that MySQL supports 
> SMALLINT, as well as PostgreSQL an Informix (those are the ones I know).

I have mysql in one dev environment and MS SQL Server in my other, and they 
tend to be pretty different, but they both have tinyint. Postgres doesn't?

> I also see that there is an ALTER TABLE to add an index, when it should only
> be a CREATE INDEX statment.

I hadn't sorted out making these portable at all yet. Is CREATE INDEX a 
portable statement?

-chuck

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