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From Heikki Linnakangas
Subject Re: Fixed length data types issue
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Msg-id 45013C66.9040101@enterprisedb.com
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In response to Re: Fixed length data types issue  (Gregory Stark <gsstark@mit.edu>)
Responses Re: Fixed length data types issue  (Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net>)
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Gregory Stark wrote:
> But why would you use UTF8 to encode fixed length ascii strings?

The encoding is set per-database. Even if you need UTF-8 to encode 
user-supplied strings, there can still be many small ASCII fields in the 
database. Country code, currency code etc.

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Heikki Linnakangas
EnterpriseDB http://www.enterprisedb.com

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