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| author | Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us> | 2015-08-26 10:33:02 -0400 |
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| committer | Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us> | 2015-08-26 10:33:02 -0400 |
| commit | 63c6522dae38e3cf6d1af795db441686e716b331 (patch) | |
| tree | 4feea9484784018e81242ec6f68b5662f0b14a50 | |
| parent | bff62dfb873be1f2469402c6e22cfb93b639f9cd (diff) | |
| download | postgresql-63c6522dae38e3cf6d1af795db441686e716b331.tar.gz postgresql-63c6522dae38e3cf6d1af795db441686e716b331.zip | |
9.5 release notes: mention lack of char() sort improvements
Report by Peter Geoghegan
Backpatch through 9.5
| -rw-r--r-- | doc/src/sgml/datatype.sgml | 3 |
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/datatype.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/datatype.sgml index a56f327fa3c..c47c7f4cb1b 100644 --- a/doc/src/sgml/datatype.sgml +++ b/doc/src/sgml/datatype.sgml @@ -1114,7 +1114,8 @@ SELECT '52093.89'::money::numeric::float8; advantages in some other database systems, there is no such advantage in <productname>PostgreSQL</productname>; in fact <type>character(<replaceable>n</>)</type> is usually the slowest of - the three because of its additional storage costs. In most situations + the three because of its additional storage costs and slower + sorting. In most situations <type>text</type> or <type>character varying</type> should be used instead. </para> |