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From	Andre Restivo
Subject	Char datatype
Date	August 9, 2000 10:46:21
Msg-id	39914519.84650A1A@criticalsoftware.com Whole thread Raw
Responses	Re: Char datatype (Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us>)
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Hi,

Does anyone know why does pg use 4+n bytes to store a char(n) field? The
four initial bytes seem to have only null chars so why are they used?

Thx

Andre Restivo

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