What's the reason why Django has SmallIntegerField?

Question

I\'m wonder why it\'s provided. The field is database dependent, doesn\'t that make it totally unreliable to use?

I want to store birth year in a model, kinda like

Answer 1

It's not totally unreliable. SMALLINT is part of the SQL standard and certainly MySQL and PostgreSQL both have small integer types that go from -32768 to +32767