Re: [HACKERS] varchar() vs char16 performance

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

From: Bruce Momjian <maillist@candle.pha.pa.us>
To: martin@biochemistry.ucl.ac.uk
Cc: pgsql-hackers@postgreSQL.org
Date: 1998-03-12T14:07:35Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
> If char2 et al are going completely from 6.4, I think it would be sensible
> for pg_dump to filter these types and change them to char(2) et al when
> it writes the CREATE statments.
> 

That is an interesting idea, but what about applications that use them? 
I think we can have the parser change them for one release, then drop
them completely.

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