Re: More on Order by

From: Michael Fuhr <mike(at)fuhr(dot)org>
To: lsunley(at)mb(dot)sympatico(dot)ca
Cc: pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: More on Order by
Date: 2004-12-26 21:16:41
Message-ID: 20041226211640.GA28590@winnie.fuhr.org
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On Sun, Dec 26, 2004 at 02:57:08PM -0500, lsunley(at)mb(dot)sympatico(dot)ca wrote:

> So what is difference between a "name" and a char(10)???

See the "Character Types" section in the "Data Types" chapter of
the documentation.

"The name type exists _only_ for storage of identifiers in the
internal system catalogs and is not intended for use by the general
user."

--
Michael Fuhr
http://www.fuhr.org/~mfuhr/

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