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title: Postgres data types
summary: >-
  Covers commonly-used Postgres data types in Neon, including arrays, booleans,
  date and time, characters, JSON, decimals, floating points, integers,
  tsvector, and UUIDs, with links to detailed guides for each type.
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Get started with commonly-used Postgres data types with Neon's data type guides. For other data types that Postgres supports, visit the official Postgres [Data Types](https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/datatype.html) documentation.

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<a href="/docs/data-types/array" description="Manage collections of elements using arrays" icon="app-store" icon="app-store">Array</a>

<a href="/docs/data-types/boolean" description="Represent truth values in Postgres" icon="app-store" icon="app-store">Boolean</a>

<a href="/docs/data-types/date-and-time" description="Work with date and time values in Postgres" icon="app-store" icon="app-store">Date and time</a>

<a href="/docs/data-types/character" description="Work with text data in Postgres" icon="app-store" icon="app-store">Character</a>

<a href="/docs/data-types/json" description="Model JSON data in Postgres" icon="app-store" icon="app-store">JSON</a>

<a href="/docs/data-types/decimal" description="Work with exact numerical values in Postgres" icon="app-store" icon="app-store">Decimal</a>

<a href="/docs/data-types/floating-point" description="Work with float values in Postgres" icon="app-store" icon="app-store">Floating point</a>

<a href="/docs/data-types/integer" description="Work with integers in Postgres" icon="app-store" icon="app-store">Integer</a>

<a href="/docs/data-types/tsvector" description="Optimize full-text search in Postgres with the tsvector data type" icon="app-store" icon="app-store">Tsvector</a>

<a href="/docs/data-types/uuid" description="Work with UUIDs in Postgres" icon="app-store" icon="app-store">UUID</a>

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