Re: Does this matter?
Josh Berkus <josh@agliodbs.com>
From: Josh Berkus <josh@agliodbs.com>
To: Philip Hallstrom <philip@adhesivemedia.com>
Cc: Wei Weng <wweng@kencast.com>, <pgsql-performance@postgresql.org>
Date: 2002-11-01T22:00:09Z
Lists: pgsql-performance
Phillip, > Really? According to this url (search for "Tip") there is no performance > difference just a space difference. I don't know for sure either way, but > if there is a difference the manual needs updating. > > http://www.postgresql.org/idocs/index.php?datatype-character.html Actually, that note is intended to tell people that CHAR is not any faster than VARCHAR for the same-length string ... since CHAR *is* faster than VARCHAR in some systems, like MS SQL Server. -- -Josh Berkus