Re: Fixed length data types issue

From: Heikki Linnakangas <heikki(at)enterprisedb(dot)com>
To: Gregory Stark <gsstark(at)mit(dot)edu>
Cc: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>, 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 09:48:22
Message-ID: 45013C66.9040101@enterprisedb.com
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Gregory Stark wrote:
> But why would you use UTF8 to encode fixed length ascii strings?

The encoding is set per-database. Even if you need UTF-8 to encode
user-supplied strings, there can still be many small ASCII fields in the
database. Country code, currency code etc.

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Heikki Linnakangas
EnterpriseDB http://www.enterprisedb.com

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