RE: [QUESTIONS] UInt types

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        -DEJ

> -----Original Message-----
> From:    Giuliano P Procida [SMTP:gpp10@cam.ac.uk]
> Sent:    Wednesday, May 06, 1998 12:54 PM
> To:    pgsql-questions@postgreSQL.org
> Subject:    [QUESTIONS] UInt types
>
> Hi.
>
> I would like a 32 bit unsigned integer type (to correspond to the SNMP
> types Counter32 and Gauge32 - Counter64 exists as well). I would
> rather not use text! I imagine someone has solved this one already? Or
> has someone added bignums to PostgreSQL (say with the (LGPL) GNU MP
> library)?
>
> Thanks in advance,
> Giuliano.
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