From: Bruce Momjian Date: Wed, 26 Aug 2015 14:33:02 +0000 (-0400) Subject: 9.5 release notes: mention lack of char() sort improvements X-Git-Tag: REL9_5_BETA1~140 X-Git-Url: https://granicus.if.org/sourcecode?a=commitdiff_plain;h=63c6522dae38e3cf6d1af795db441686e716b331;p=postgresql 9.5 release notes: mention lack of char() sort improvements Report by Peter Geoghegan Backpatch through 9.5 --- diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/datatype.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/datatype.sgml index a56f327fa3..c47c7f4cb1 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 PostgreSQL; in fact character(n) 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 text or character varying should be used instead.