Re: Fixed length data types issue

From: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>
To: Gregory Stark <gsstark(at)mit(dot)edu>
Cc: Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org, Martijn van Oosterhout <kleptog(at)svana(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Fixed length data types issue
Date: 2006-09-08 07:41:47
Message-ID: 200609080941.48334.peter_e@gmx.net
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Gregory Stark wrote:
> > But that won't help in the example you posted upthread, because
> > char(N) is not fixed-length.
>
> Sure it is because any sane database--certainly any sane database
> using char(N)--is in C locale anyways.

This matter is completely independent of the choice of locale and
therefore any unilateral redefinition of sanity that you might come up
with.

--
Peter Eisentraut
http://developer.postgresql.org/~petere/

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