On Sat, 30 Oct 2004, Tom Lane wrote: > > The alternative is storing the charset and collation inside each string. > > That seems like a too big price to pay, it belong in the type. > > No, the alternative you're proposing is too big a price to pay.
So you want to expand every string with 8 bytes (two oid's)? Or special case the storing in tables so that you only store the text and not the charset/collation info? -- /Dennis Björklund ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 2: you can get off all lists at once with the unregister command (send "unregister YourEmailAddressHere" to [EMAIL PROTECTED])