Re: Changing Column Order (Was Re: MySQL vs PostgreSQL.)

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: Jan Wieck <JanWieck(at)Yahoo(dot)com>, Alessio Bragadini <alessio(at)albourne(dot)com>, PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Changing Column Order (Was Re: MySQL vs PostgreSQL.)
Date: 2002-10-16 03:15:11
Message-ID: 20553.1034738111@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us> writes:
> Jan Wieck wrote:
>> When was char() fixed size?

> char() was fixed size only in that you could cache the column offsets
> for char() becuase it was always the same width on disk before TOAST.

But that was already broken by MULTIBYTE.

regards, tom lane

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