| From: | Josh Berkus <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com> |
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| To: | Philip Hallstrom <philip(at)adhesivemedia(dot)com> |
| Cc: | Wei Weng <wweng(at)kencast(dot)com>, <pgsql-performance(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: Does this matter? |
| Date: | 2002-11-01 22:00:09 |
| Message-ID: | 200211011400.09915.josh@agliodbs.com |
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Phillip,
> Really? According to this url (search for "Tip") there is no performance
> difference just a space difference. I don't know for sure either way, but
> if there is a difference the manual needs updating.
>
> http://www.postgresql.org/idocs/index.php?datatype-character.html
Actually, that note is intended to tell people that CHAR is not any faster
than VARCHAR for the same-length string ... since CHAR *is* faster than
VARCHAR in some systems, like MS SQL Server.
--
-Josh Berkus
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