On 2005-11-03, Martijn van Oosterhout <kleptog@svana.org> wrote: >> For "other databases", the column could be encoded as 2 byte characters >> or 4 byte characters, allowing it to be fixed. I find myself doubting >> that ASCII characters could be encoded more efficiently in such formats, >> than the inclusion of a length header and per character length encoding, >> but for multibyte characters, the race is probably even. :-) > > That's called UTF-16 and is currently not supported by PostgreSQL at > all. That may change, since the locale library ICU requires UTF-16 for > everything.
Even UTF-16 is not fixed-length; some characters require 4 bytes, not 2. -- Andrew, Supernews http://www.supernews.com - individual and corporate NNTP services ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 3: Have you checked our extensive FAQ? http://www.postgresql.org/docs/faq
