From: Josh Berkus <josh@agliodbs.com>
To: Philip Hallstrom <philip@adhesivemedia.com>
Cc: Wei Weng <wweng@kencast.com>
Cc: pgsql-performance@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: Does this matter?
Date: Fri, 1 Nov 2002 14:00:09 -0800
Message-ID: <200211011400.09915.josh@agliodbs.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20021101125052.Y6303-100000@cypress.adhesivemedia.com>
References: <20021101125052.Y6303-100000@cypress.adhesivemedia.com>
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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