9.5 release notes: mention lack of char() sort improvements
authorBruce Momjian <[email protected]>
Wed, 26 Aug 2015 14:33:02 +0000 (10:33 -0400)
committerBruce Momjian <[email protected]>
Wed, 26 Aug 2015 14:33:02 +0000 (10:33 -0400)
Report by Peter Geoghegan

Backpatch through 9.5

doc/src/sgml/datatype.sgml

index 8113ddf8179f10e1b0f031d2d4106837656e23e3..4d883ecb8b11003975e9ada6684404f558057ff4 100644 (file)
@@ -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>