Re: Speeding up schema changes - Mailing list pgsql-sql

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In response to Re: Speeding up schema changes  (Gregory Stark <stark@enterprisedb.com>)
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On Sep 3, 2007, at 7:26 AM, Gregory Stark wrote:
> Also, incidentally do you have a good reason to use CHAR instead of  
> varchar or
> text? char(64) will take 64 bytes (actually 68 bytes in 8.2) even  
> if you don't
> store anything more in it. text or varchar will take only as many  
> bytes as the
> data you're storing (plus 4 bytes).

Hrm, do we actually pad before storing? ISTM we should really do that  
the other way around...
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