Gregory Stark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > The user would have to decide that he'll never need a value over 127 bytes > long ever in order to get the benefit.
Weren't you the one that's been going on at great length about how wastefully we store CHAR(1) ? Sure, this has a somewhat restricted use case, but it's about as efficient as we could possibly get within that use case. regards, tom lane ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 4: Have you searched our list archives? http://archives.postgresql.org