mysql中int(M)中的M的含义

我不认识写下面这篇文章的外国人，不过确实讲清楚了，没时间翻译，好在原文不长

MySQL int(11) and int(3) store the same values.

7/29/2005, 7:26 pm

MySQL has a little know feature for numerical types known as zerofill. This feature effects the display size of numerical types. Unlike the string types the number inside the parentheses is not the storage size in characters for the type. For numerical types the type name itself determines storage size.

Column Type Bytes On Disk Signed Storage Range Unsigned Storage Range tinyint 1 bytes -128 to 127 0 to 255 smallint 2 bytes -32768 to 32767 0 to 65535 mediumint 3 bytes -8388608 to 8388607 0 to 16777215 int 4 bytes -2147483648 to 2147483647 0 to 4294967295 bigint 8 bytes -9223372036854775808 to 9223372036854775807 0 to 18446744073709551615

The confusion between types comes from the number inside parentheses for different types. The integer type it’s the padding size for zerofill. The following examples demonstrates zerofill. All of these tables store the same range of values since they are all integer type.

Zerofill with padding specified:

mysql> create table t (t int(3) zerofill);
Query OK, 0 rows affected (0.00 sec)

mysql> insert into t set t = 10;
Query OK, 1 row affected (0.00 sec)

mysql> select * from t;
+——+
| t |
+——+
| 010 |
+——+
1 row in set (0.11 sec)

Zerofill with default width, the same as int(10):

mysql> create table t (t int zerofill);
Query OK, 0 rows affected (0.02 sec)

mysql> insert into t set t = 10;
Query OK, 1 row affected (0.02 sec)

mysql> select * from t;
+————+
| t |
+————+
| 0000000010 |
+————+
1 row in set (0.08 sec)

Without zerofill:

mysql> create table t (t int);
Query OK, 0 rows affected (0.01 sec)

mysql> insert into t set t = 10;
Query OK, 1 row affected (0.01 sec)

mysql> select * from t;
+——+
| t |
+——+
| 10 |
+——+
1 row in set (0.00 sec)

One common usage for this is creating invoice ids. It saves the work of having to use lpad() for ids like this ‘UP000009′.

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