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Re: Fixed length data types issue - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Alvaro Herrera
Subject Re: Fixed length data types issue
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In response to Re: Fixed length data types issue  (Gregory Stark <[email protected]>)
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Gregory Stark wrote:
> Tom Lane <[email protected]> writes:
> 
> >> Also Heikki points out here that it would be nice to allow for the case for a
> >> 0-byte header.
> >
> > I don't think there's enough code space for that; at least not compared
> > to its use case.
> 
> Well it's irrelevant if we add a special data type to handle CHAR(1).

In that case you should probably be using "char" ...

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