Hi,
Seems like by default database is created using UTF-8 when we use
createdb in 8.1.3.
Is there any big advantage of using UTF-8 rather than ASCII? Will there
be any performance difference when performing string operations?
Does the string functions convert every thing to UTF-8 before performing
the operations?
Surely it is going to increase by database size if we switch to UTF-8.
All the characters in my database should be ASCII. I use JDBC so will
there be any performance gain as the JDBC does not have to perform the
conversion?
Thanks,
-Prasanth.