Postgres Pro
Downloads
Home   >   mailing lists

Re: Changing Column Order (Was Re: MySQL vs PostgreSQL.) - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Tom Lane
Subject Re: Changing Column Order (Was Re: MySQL vs PostgreSQL.)
Date
Msg-id 20553.1034738111@sss.pgh.pa.us
Whole thread Raw
In response to Re: Changing Column Order (Was Re: MySQL vs PostgreSQL.)  (Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us>)
Responses Re: Changing Column Order (Was Re: MySQL vs PostgreSQL.)
List pgsql-hackers
Tree view 
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

pgsql-hackers by date:

Previous
From: Alvaro Herrera
Date:
Subject: Re: [GENERAL] Postgres-based system to run .org registry?
Next
From: Bruce Momjian
Date:
Subject: Re: Changing Column Order (Was Re: MySQL vs PostgreSQL.)