Re: Fixed length data types issue

From: Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net>
To: Heikki Linnakangas <heikki(at)enterprisedb(dot)com>
Cc: Gregory Stark <gsstark(at)mit(dot)edu>, 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 09:54:01
Message-ID: 45013DB9.4040505@dunslane.net
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Heikki Linnakangas wrote:
> 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.
>
>

ISTM we should revisit this when we get per-column encoding.

cheers

andrew

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