From: Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>
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_6_BETA1~1440
X-Git-Url: https://granicus.if.org/sourcecode?a=commitdiff_plain;h=8190f2dfef0c8cf17acb678b7d24f68e4c80a44e;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 8113ddf817..4d883ecb8b 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/datatype.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/datatype.sgml
@@ -1139,7 +1139,8 @@ 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>