Re: Multibyte FAQ item

On Wed, 2001-09-26 at 06:22, Tom Lane wrote:

> > This really comes down to the point that multibyte, unicode, and locale
> > should be the defaults.  People generally object to this on performance
> > grounds, but that reminds me of the saying, "I can make this code
> > arbitrarily fast if it doesn't have to give the right answer."
>
> A fair point ...
>
> > Nor do I believe these claims, btw.
>
> Has anyone done any measurements of performance with/without these
> options?  I know I haven't.

Would be rather silly in my case because all my base are belong to
French locale...

=:-D

Cheers

Tony Grant