Re: [HACKERS] no operator '=' for types char16 and text

Bruce Momjian <maillist@candle.pha.pa.us>

From: Bruce Momjian <maillist@candle.pha.pa.us>
To: darcy@druid.net (D'Arcy J.M. Cain)
Cc: pgsql-hackers@postgreSQL.org
Date: 1998-03-04T16:01:16Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
> 
> Thus spake Bruce Momjian
> > > > The major string types are char(), varchar(), and text.
> > > Is there a performance hit if the values chosen are not powers of 2?
> > Nope.
> 
> Cool.
> 
> Except I'm a dinosaur and somehow it doesn't feel right if it isn't a
> power of two.  Oh well.  :-)

That's what char2,char4, char8, and char16 are for.

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