On Fri, Sep 15, 2006 at 11:43:52AM +0100, Heikki Linnakangas wrote: > My gut feeling is that it wouldn't be that bad compared to what we have > now or the new proposed varlena scheme, but before someone actually > tries it and shows some numbers, this is just hand-waving.
Well, that depends on whether you're going to make a special typlen value for *just* UTF-8, which would probably cost about the same. Or allow any type to have it's own Datum length function, which would be very expensive. Calling user-defined functions is not cheap. I don't think making a special typlen value just for a type that can store a single UTF-8 character is smart. I just can't see enough use to make it worth it. Have a nice day, -- Martijn van Oosterhout <kleptog@svana.org> http://svana.org/kleptog/ > From each according to his ability. To each according to his ability to > litigate.
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