Thus spake Thomas G. Lockhart
> the charX types (char2, 4, 8, 16) are not well supported. They are
> likely to disappear in the next release, with the parser mapping them to
> char(X) (or varchar(X), whichever is the best match) for backward
> compatibility.
> 
> The major string types are char(), varchar(), and text.

Is there a performance hit if the values chosen are not powers of 2?

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• Re: [HACKERS] no operator '=' for types char16 and text at 1998-03-04 03:05:12 from Thomas G. Lockhart

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