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commit    8190f2dfef0c8cf17acb678b7d24f68e4c80a44e
Author:   Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>
Date:     Wed Aug 26 14:33:02 2015 +0000
First released in: 9.6.0, 9.5.0

    9.5 release notes:  mention lack of char() sort improvements
    
    Report by Peter Geoghegan
    
    Backpatch through 9.5


 doc/src/sgml/datatype.sgml | 3 ++-
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/datatype.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/datatype.sgml
index 8113ddf8179..4d883ecb8b1 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/datatype.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/datatype.sgml
@@ -1139,7 +1139,8 @@ SELECT '52093.89'::money::numeric::float8;
      advantages in some other database systems, there is no such advantage in
      <productname>PostgreSQL</productname>; in fact
      <type>character(<replaceable>n</>)</type> is usually the slowest of
-     the three because of its additional storage costs.  In most situations
+     the three because of its additional storage costs and slower
+     sorting.  In most situations
      <type>text</type> or <type>character varying</type> should be used
      instead.
     </para>


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