Data Types
Ingres supports the conventional data types such as:
- integers (1 byte, 2 byte, 4 byte and 8 byte)
- floats (4 byte, 8 byte)
- fixed precision numbers (numeric/decimal)
- characters (fixed and variable length)
- binary (fixed and variable length)
- dates and times (ANSI date, time, and timestamp)
Ingres supports Unicode with types:
- nchar
- nvarchar
Ingres supports large objects with:
- long varchar
- long byte
Ingres supports proprietary types such as:
- ingres date
- money
Ingres supports geospatial data types (version 10S and later):
- point, multipoint
- linestring, multilinestring
- polygon, multipolygon
- geometry, geometrycollection
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