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From: Josh Berkus <josh@agliodbs.com>
To: Rob <pgadmin@itsbeen.sent.com>
To: kumar <sgnerd@yahoo.com.sg>
To: pgsql-sql@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: Equivalant of SQL Server's Nchar and NVARCHAR
Date: Thu, 29 Apr 2004 12:20:01 -0700
Message-ID: <200404291220.01457.josh@agliodbs.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <40910EBC.1090807@itsbeen.sent.com>
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	<40910EBC.1090807@itsbeen.sent.com>

Kumar,

> I only only use ascii but...
> I believe postgresql varchar is the same as Oracle/Sybase/MS SQL 
> nvarchar even though it doesn't explicitly say so here:

All of our TEXT datatypes are multibyte-capable, provided you've installed 
PostgreSQL correctly.    This includes:
TEXT (recommended)
VARCHAR
CHAR

-- 
-Josh Berkus
 Aglio Database Solutions
 San Francisco




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