On Sat, Oct 01, 2005 at 09:43:03AM +0100, Simon Riggs wrote:
> On Fri, 2005-09-30 at 18:30 -0500, Jim C. Nasby wrote:
>
> > I thought char was actually stored variable-length...? I know there's a
> > type that actually acts like char does on most databases, but I can't
> > remember what it is off-hand (it should be mentioned in docs 8.3...)
>
> You are correct on that point, but IMHO that doesn't change the
> situation sufficiently for the main part of this thread.
Depends on how many tuples and how wide they are. 4 extra bytes over a
couple hundred million rows isn't something to sneeze at. :)
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