Peter Eisentraut writes:
> This, and the message from Tom Lane, seem inconsistent with the
>> documentation re "Character Types"
>> (http://developer.postgresql.org/docs/postgres/datatype-character.html)
>> which says:
>>
>> "Tip: There are no performance differences between these three types,
apart
>> from the increased storage size when using the blank-padded type."
>
>What are you saying? This is exactly true. Of course the padding might
>also take time, not only space, but we don't want to get too picky here.
>
Fair enough.