Re: charset/collation in values

Dennis Bjorklund wrote:
> I've looked into storing charset/collation in the string values. This
> means that we change varchar/text/BpChar to be structures that have a
> charset oid field and a collation oid field, the rest of the Datum is the
> string data.
> 
I think the number of charset/collation combinations will be relatively 
few so perhaps it would be space efficient to maintain a table where 
each combination is given an oid and have string values store that 
rather than two separate oid's?

Regards,
Thomas Hallgren