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Re: Changing Column Order (Was Re: MySQL vs PostgreSQL.)

Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>

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From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us>
Cc: Jan Wieck <JanWieck@Yahoo.com>, Alessio Bragadini <alessio@albourne.com>, PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2002-10-16T03:15:11Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers, pgsql-general 
Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us> writes:
> Jan Wieck wrote:
>> When was char() fixed size?

> char() was fixed size only in that you could cache the column offsets
> for char() becuase it was always the same width on disk before TOAST.

But that was already broken by MULTIBYTE.

			regards, tom lane