Is it possible to store a 1 byte number in Postgres?

Question

I have 7 8-bit integer values per record that I want to store in Postgres. Pg doesn\'t offer a single byte integer type, SMALLINT, or 2 bytes, being the smallest integer datatyp

Answer 1

I haven't tested them myself, but there are extensions for this; e.g http://pgxn.org/dist/tinyint/ .