INTEGER and SMALLINT data types (including all spellings)”cast(… as <target>). Use cast(… as signed)Other integer data types: bigint.
ISO/IEC 9075-2:2023 does not define a precision for these data types.0 The bit numbers above correspond to the data type mappings for the C programming language.1
The data types smallint, integer and int where already required for Entry SQL-92.
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ISO/IEC 9075-2:2023 §6.1 SR 30
ISO/IEC 9075-2:2023 §13.5 together with ISO/IEC 9899:2017, §5.2.4.2.1 Sizes of integer types <limits.h>