Re: char array overhead

On 03/31/2014 09:48 AM, Steve Atkins wrote:
> On Mar 31, 2014, at 8:08 AM, Rob Sargent <robjsargent(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
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>> I'm angling toward using a very wide char(1) array. Is the one-byte overhead for char(n<126) applied to each element or to the array?
> Each element, it's a variable length type.
>
> There's probably a better way of storing your data, but if you end up really needing a one-byte long character type, there is "char" (with the quotes).
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> Cheers,
> Steve
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>
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Thank you! First for the confirmation on the overhead (how
disappointing) and secondly for the "char". That had not crossed my radar.

Jsyk, I'm toying with a rather large number of small valued datapoints
per sample. I'm tying text and smallint as well.

Thanks again,

rjs