On Wed, Aug 24, 2005 at 03:06:18PM -0400, Emi Lu wrote: > Good afternoon, > > A question about varchar(1) and char(1).
<snip> > As a result, setup 'col1' to either "varchar(1)" or "char(1)" does not > matter at all? As far as storage goes, nope. Think about it, depending on your encoding, 1 character might be 4 bytes. char() adds padding but varchar() doesn't. That's the difference really... Hope this helps, -- Martijn van Oosterhout <kleptog@svana.org> http://svana.org/kleptog/ > Patent. n. Genius is 5% inspiration and 95% perspiration. A patent is a > tool for doing 5% of the work and then sitting around waiting for someone > else to do the other 95% so you can sue them.
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