Re: Fixed length data types issue

Gregory Stark wrote:
> Tom Lane  writes:
> 
> >> Also Heikki points out here that it would be nice to allow for the case for a
> >> 0-byte header.
> >
> > I don't think there's enough code space for that; at least not compared
> > to its use case.
> 
> Well it's irrelevant if we add a special data type to handle CHAR(1).

In that case you should probably be using "char" ...

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