Re: Speed & Memory Management

From: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>
To: Kris Kiger <kris(at)musicrebellion(dot)com>
Cc: pgsql-admin(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Speed & Memory Management
Date: 2003-04-04 16:46:25
Message-ID: Pine.LNX.4.44.0304041845320.1945-100000@peter.localdomain
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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(at)gmx(dot)net

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