Re: About column type to "varchar(1)" or "char(1)"

On Wed, Aug 24, 2005 at 03:06:18PM -0400, Emi Lu wrote:
> Good afternoon,
>
> A question about varchar(1) and char(1).

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> As a result, setup 'col1' to either "varchar(1)" or "char(1)" does not
> matter at all?

As far as storage goes, nope. Think about it, depending on your
encoding, 1 character might be 4 bytes.

char() adds padding but varchar() doesn't. That's the difference
really...

Hope this helps,
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