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

From Peter Eisentraut
Subject Re: Speed & Memory Management
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Msg-id Pine.LNX.4.44.0304041845320.1945-100000@peter.localdomain
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In response to Re: Speed & Memory Management  (Kris Kiger <kris@musicrebellion.com>)
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Kris Kiger writes:

> Under what circumstances does a character not take up a set number of
> bytes?  For example, i was under the impression  that utf-8 allocated 6
> bytes per character.

Nope, UTF-8 is variable length.  And besides, UTF-8 is not the only
supported encoding.

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Peter Eisentraut   peter_e@gmx.net


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