Report by Peter Geoghegan
Backpatch through 9.5
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>