Re: [HACKERS] varchar() vs char16 performance

Brett McCormick <brett@work.chicken.org>

From: Brett McCormick <brett@work.chicken.org>
To: t-ishii@sra.co.jp
Cc: "Thomas G. Lockhart" <lockhart@alumni.caltech.edu>, Postgres Hackers List <hackers@postgreSQL.org>
Date: 1998-03-16T08:15:08Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
hmm.. well until the grammar gets fixed, create table c(c _char)
should work, as _typename is the typename from an array of that type.
Although I don't see what advantages a character array has over text?

On Mon, 16 March 1998, at 15:20:36, t-ishii@sra.co.jp wrote:

> Please do not remove char2! Some users uses it for making an array of
> char.
> 
> create table c(c char2[]);
> 
> Seems strange? Yes. Actually what he wanted to do was:
> 
> test=> create table c(c char[]);
> ERROR:  parser: parse error at or near "["
> --
> Tatsuo Ishii
> t-ishii@sra.co.jp