X-Original-To: pgsql-sql-postgresql.org@localhost.postgresql.org Received: from localhost (unknown [200.46.204.2]) by svr1.postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 602C0D1E93C for ; Thu, 29 Apr 2004 16:20:03 -0300 (ADT) Received: from svr1.postgresql.org ([200.46.204.71]) by localhost (neptune.hub.org [200.46.204.2]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 27176-10 for ; Thu, 29 Apr 2004 16:19:44 -0300 (ADT) Received: from davinci.ethosmedia.com (server228.ethosmedia.com [209.128.84.228]) by svr1.postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6A01DD1E321 for ; Thu, 29 Apr 2004 16:19:42 -0300 (ADT) Received: from [64.81.245.111] (HELO 192.168.1.102) by davinci.ethosmedia.com (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 4.1.8) with ESMTP id 4974753; Thu, 29 Apr 2004 12:21:08 -0700 From: Josh Berkus Reply-To: josh@agliodbs.com Organization: Aglio Database Solutions To: Rob , kumar , pgsql-sql@postgresql.org Subject: Re: Equivalant of SQL Server's Nchar and NVARCHAR Date: Thu, 29 Apr 2004 12:20:01 -0700 User-Agent: KMail/1.5.4 References: <011201c42dd2$69245f70$7502a8c0@hdsc.com> <40910EBC.1090807@itsbeen.sent.com> In-Reply-To: <40910EBC.1090807@itsbeen.sent.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200404291220.01457.josh@agliodbs.com> X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at postgresql.org X-Spam-Status: No, hits=0.3 tagged_above=0.0 required=5.0 tests=RCVD_NUMERIC_HELO X-Spam-Level: X-Archive-Number: 200404/321 X-Sequence-Number: 17696 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