Re: More on Order by - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Michael Fuhr
Subject Re: More on Order by
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Msg-id 20041226211640.GA28590@winnie.fuhr.org
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In response to More on Order by  (lsunley@mb.sympatico.ca)
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On Sun, Dec 26, 2004 at 02:57:08PM -0500, lsunley@mb.sympatico.ca wrote:

> So what is difference between a "name" and a char(10)???

See the "Character Types" section in the "Data Types" chapter of
the documentation.

"The name type exists _only_ for storage of identifiers in the
internal system catalogs and is not intended for use by the general
user."

-- 
Michael Fuhr
http://www.fuhr.org/~mfuhr/


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