Re: Defining character sets for indicidual fields - Mailing list pgsql-general

On May 31, 2008, at 6:22 PM, Ram Ravichandran wrote:

> Hi,
>
> By default, my postgresql server is set to use UTF8 character set. I
> was wondering if there is any way to make sure that certain fields
> like url etc. only makes use of ascii. My main aim is to save space
> by using only 1 byte / character for urls  (some of the urls are
> over 200 characters long). Is this possible? Or are all characters
> eventually converted to UTF8 during storage?

An ascii string and the UTF8 representation of it will take exactly
the same number of bytes, so if space used is your concern it's not an
issue.

Cheers,
   Steve