Re: Fixed length data types issue - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

Heikki Linnakangas wrote:
> 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.
>
>

ISTM we should revisit this when we get per-column encoding.

cheers

andrew