Tom Lane wrote: > Bruce Momjian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Jan Wieck wrote: > >> When was char() fixed size? > > > char() was fixed size only in that you could cache the column offsets > > for char() becuase it was always the same width on disk before TOAST. > > But that was already broken by MULTIBYTE.
Yes, I think there was conditional code that had the optimization only for non-multibyte servers. Of course, now multibyte is default. -- Bruce Momjian | http://candle.pha.pa.us [EMAIL PROTECTED] | (610) 359-1001 + If your life is a hard drive, | 13 Roberts Road + Christ can be your backup. | Newtown Square, Pennsylvania 19073 ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 4: Don't 'kill -9' the postmaster
