Martijn van Oosterhout wrote:
I don't think making a special typlen value just for a type that can store a single UTF-8 character is smart. I just can't see enough use to make it worth it.
Assuming that we can set encoding per-column one day, I agree. If you have a CHAR(1) field, you're going to store codes like 'A', 'B', 'C' or '1', '2', '3' in it, and you don't need UTF-8 for that.
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