> On Mon, 1 Nov 2004, Tom Lane wrote: > > > > I think the number of charset/collation combinations will be relatively > > > few so perhaps it would be space efficient to maintain a table where > > > each combination is given an oid and have string values store that > > > rather than two separate oid's? > > > > In fact, we should do our best to get the overhead down to 1 or 2 bytes. > > Two OIDs (8 bytes) is ridiculous. > > Just to be clear, we don't want to store it on disk no matter what since > it should be enough to store it once for each column. As a first solution > we could store it just to keep it simple until we have tried it out.
Right. AFAIK nobody has proposed charsets/collations onto disk. -- Tatsuo Ishii ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 4: Don't 'kill -9' the postmaster
