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?
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/Dennis Björklund