Char datatype

From: Andre Restivo <arestivo(at)criticalsoftware(dot)com>
To: pgsql-admin(at)postgreSQL(dot)org
Subject: Char datatype
Date: 2000-08-09 11:48:41
Message-ID: 39914519.84650A1A@criticalsoftware.com
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Hi,

Does anyone know why does pg use 4+n bytes to store a char(n) field? The
four initial bytes seem to have only null chars so why are they used?

Thx

Andre Restivo

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