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

From Gregory Stark
Subject Re: Fixed length data types issue
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Msg-id 87r6yiqur5.fsf@stark.xeocode.com
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In response to Re: Fixed length data types issue  (Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@commandprompt.com>)
Responses Re: Fixed length data types issue  (Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@commandprompt.com>)
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Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@commandprompt.com> writes:

> > Well it's irrelevant if we add a special data type to handle CHAR(1).
> 
> In that case you should probably be using "char" ...

Well "char" doesn't have quite the same semantics as CHAR(1). If that's the
consensus though then I can work on either fixing "char" semantics to match
CHAR(1) or adding a separate type instead.

--  Gregory Stark EnterpriseDB          http://www.enterprisedb.com



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