Re: Fixed length data types issue

Martijn van Oosterhout wrote:
> 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.
>   

Assuming that we can set encoding per-column one day, I agree. If you 
have a CHAR(1) field, you're going to store codes like 'A', 'B', 'C' or 
'1', '2', '3' in it, and you don't need UTF-8 for that.

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