Re: Speed & Memory Management - Mailing list pgsql-admin

From Peter Eisentraut
Subject Re: Speed & Memory Management
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Msg-id Pine.LNX.4.44.0304030022220.3656-100000@peter.localdomain
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In response to Re: Speed & Memory Management  (Murthy Kambhampaty <murthy.kambhampaty@goeci.com>)
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Murthy Kambhampaty writes:

> This, and the message from Tom Lane, seem inconsistent with the
> documentation re "Character Types"
> (http://developer.postgresql.org/docs/postgres/datatype-character.html)
> which says:
>
> "Tip:  There are no performance differences between these three types, apart
> from the increased storage size when using the blank-padded type."

What are you saying?  This is exactly true.  Of course the padding might
also take time, not only space, but we don't want to get too picky here.

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Peter Eisentraut   peter_e@gmx.net


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