On Fri, Oct 06, 2023 at 01:33:06PM -0400, Robert Haas wrote: > On Thu, Oct 5, 2023 at 3:15 PM Nico Williams <n...@cryptonector.com> wrote: > > Text+encoding can be just like bytea with a one- or two-byte prefix > > indicating what codeset+encoding it's in. That'd be how to encode > > such text values on the wire, though on disk the column's type should > > indicate the codeset+encoding, so no need to add a prefix to the value. > > Well, that would be making the encoding a per-value property, rather > than a per-column property like collation as I proposed. I can't see
On-disk it would be just a property of the type, not part of the value. Nico --